Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package

[Óscar Fuentes]

address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:

> It is simply for me to remove the -g option from the windows build. This
> would reduce the overall size of the build, to the values given here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-04/msg00115.html
>
> I am happy to do this (for Emacs-27 -- I do not want to change during
> major release). But I would like feedback from people who either use or
> handle bug reports for Emacs on Windows to let me know whether this
> would break things.

There is a simple approach to this: `make install' as usual, package as
usual (without dependencies) but name that package
emacs-debug-blah-blah. Now run `strip` on Emacs binary directory and
proceed to do the normal packaging.

If the user wants to debug Emacs at the C level, he grabs
emacs-debug-blah-blah and unzips it on top of his current install.