Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98082
Package compiled with debug symbols enabled
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:19 EDT
Description of problem: The following packages are huge: XFree86-4.2.1-20 - 70 MB XFree86-devel-4.2.1-20 - 40 MB the previous versions were decent sized XFree86-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm - 11MB XFree86-devel-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm - 5MB They seem to be compiled with debugging symbols enabled, XFree86 startup log messages contain at every step: (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Not loading .debug_abbrev Not loading .debug_info Not loading .rel.debug_info Not loading .debug_line ...tons more... Besides this startup time is slightly slower than before (I'm not sure if this is related...) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.2.1-20 XFree86-devel-4.2.1-20 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download'n'install'n'run Actual Results: Disk space used :) Expected Results: Less disk space used ;) Additional info: I'd classify this as a 'severe memory (disk space) leak'
The binaries aren't stripped, so the an upgrade chews a significant amount of disk space. Comment added so people who search for XFree86 and strip will (hopefully) find this bug.
Ugh. This problem occured due to a buildsystem glitch that happened a while ago which also affected various other errata in progress at the time, in particular KDE. The buildsystem was adding '-g' to RPM_OPT_FLAGS, which caused X to be compiled with gobs of debugging info which did not subsequently get stripped. This got missed by us because the XFree86 packages had been tested prior to us being aware of the problem. A simple rebuild through our buildsystem will fix this issue, and we'll be releasing new erratum very soon for this problem due to the huge file sizes and disk space requirements it creates. I've also fixed bug #98013 which was just reported as well. Closing as ERRATA 4.2.1-21 (soon to be released)
*** Bug 98240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***