"rules" did not exist on "master"
Executables in the Linux binaries are not stripped
The executables inside the GHC binary tarball seem to come with debug information. Stripping it noticeably reduces the binary sizes:
$ file /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc
/path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0x6012a4c86cd3f410ca0e59ab4ac872ce740d03c6, not stripped
$ du -sh /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc
1,4M /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc
$ strip -s /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc
$ du -sh /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc
1021K /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc
$ du -sh /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/haddock
3,2M /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/haddock
$ strip -s /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/haddock
$ du -sh /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/haddock
2,3M /path/to/ghc-7.8.2/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/haddockDo we really need to include the debug info for exes?
Edited by Thomas Miedema