[tor-bugs] #12387 [Tor bundles/installation]: (Some) Pluggable Transport binaries are not stripped

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#12387: (Some) Pluggable Transport binaries are not stripped
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     Reporter:  gk                   |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor                  |    Version:
  bundles/installation               |   Keywords:  TorBrowserTeam201407,
   Resolution:                       |  tbb-testcase
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Comment (by yawning):

 Replying to [comment:5 dcf]:
 > According to the lantern-devel mailing list,
 "[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lantern-devel/FUN00B8rZtQ
 Compiling Go binaries with the -w linker flag makes binaries quite a bit
 smaller]." `-w` is "omit the DWARF symbol table." Additionally `-s` ("omit
 the symbol table and debug information") looks useful among the
 [http://golang.org/cmd/ld/ ld options].

 Per the Debian bug:
 > We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
 golang, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

 I'm not sure how relevant this problem is, because:
  * We don't build ARM binaries (except for Orbot and eventually Firefox
 OS, where we can change the build procedure)
  * We use Go 1.2.x last I checked.

 I've only been stripping binaries for amd64, but I have had none of the
 issues described at all (probably because I use Go 1.3 on amd64 instead of
 ARM).  As an additional point of reference even if we decide against
 stripping, moving to Go 1.3 will omit the plan 9 symbol table resulting in
 a substantial binary size reduction (in addition to other runtime
 bugfixes), so it is probably worth considering.

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