[R-pkg-devel] Reducing installed package size with --strip-debug

[Ege Rubak]

Hi,

Based on Dirk's blog post [1] about stripping debug information from the 
shared object of my package `s2` I reduced the shared object file size 
from 7 to 0.7 MB and get rid of a NOTE about the installed package size 
(on my local Linux machine).

Dirk suggests that one could conditionally do this in the Makevars file 
if the strip tool is available (typically the case on Linux). Does 
anybody know what CRAN's take is on this?

Cheers,
Ege

[1]: 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/08/14/#009_compact_shared_libraries

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