Subject: bug#2507: 23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:22:44 +0300

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:09:41 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Yes, of course.  No one did anything about this problem, AFAIK.
> 
> Is it something that should be done anything about, though?

Yes.

> Is stripping the binary something that you'd want to do?

Yes.  For shipping a an official release's binaries, for example.  Or
for taking Emacs on a small mobile device.  The unstripped binary
measures 37MB on Windows, most of which is DWARF2 debug info.