Re: go: shrink binaries

Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> Mon, 25 May 2026 09:09:29 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
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Hi!

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 09:00:22AM +0100, Adam Ciarciński wrote:
> To all go modules, can we add:
> 
> -ldflags='-s -w' to omit symbol table (-s) and strip debug information (-w), and also

Perhaps make this part conditional on INSTALL_UNSTRIPPED being set to
'no'.

> -trimpath to avoid baking full GOPATH/module paths into binaries (without it, there is a work directory reference, so CHECK_WRKREF_SKIP can possible be removed in lang/go/go-module.mk)

Neat!

> But GOFLAGS won't propagate, because many packages override it.
> 
> Is there a better way to achieve this?

Perhaps we can change the packages to use += ?
 Thomas