From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently, there's plenty of unused code in most binaries. Enable -fdata/function-sections, which allows the linker garbage collection to do its job. On a maintainer build, this reduces the (unstriped) binaries from 117 to 114MiB. --- acinclude.m4 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4 index c5d6de7b3..4b73a5bfc 100644 --- a/acinclude.m4 +++ b/acinclude.m4 @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([MISC_FLAGS], [ misc_cflags="$misc_cflags --coverage" misc_ldflags="$misc_ldflags --coverage" fi + misc_cflags="$misc_cflags -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections" + misc_ldflags="$misc_ldflags -Wl,--gc-sections" AC_SUBST([MISC_CFLAGS], $misc_cflags) AC_SUBST([MISC_LDFLAGS], $misc_ldflags) ]) -- 2.43.0
