size of debug symbols

Christos Chatzaras chris at cretaforce.gr
Fri Feb 22 16:06:26 UTC 2019



> On 22 Feb 2019, at 18:00, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> But did you consider deleting older versions of libraries
>> that are maybe still present?
>> 
>>> From /usr/src/Makefile:
>> 
>> # delete-old          - Delete obsolete directories/files/libraries.
>> # delete-old-dirs     - Delete obsolete directories.
>> # delete-old-files    - Delete obsolete files.
>> # delete-old-libs     - Delete obsolete libraries.
>> 
>> Maybe you're seeing obsolete stuff, too...
> 
> 	When I run "make delete-old", I get asked about each individual file.
> 	There are a _lot_ of files.
> 	Is there a way to say "y" to everything?  I know this -
> technically - incurs a certain amount of risk.  But considering Ican't
> remember any reports of someone getting bit by this it seems like a
> risk worth taking.

make -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES delete-old


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