Stripping the .o files too

[Theorell]

Very much appreciate this project, since it reduces my .so file from 7mb to 171kb. At the moment, r-stripper does nothing for the .o files, even though I see that they are reducible using:

strip --strip-debug *.o

Would it be possible to extend the r-stripper to also reduce .o files?

[dcdillon]

The purpose here is to shrink the install size of packages. The intermediate object file size isn’t really the target. Additionally, strip is not necessarily present on all platforms, whereas the linker must be.

As a result I really don’t think there is a good method or reason to implement this here. Feel free to convince me otherwise though.

[Theorell]

So, the reason for my request was that some of my .o files were bigger than 4 mb and thereby violated the upload check on bioconductor. Since the .o files are intermediates, I solved the problem by simply deleting them after compiling the .so executable. This solution seems to work in my case.

Generally though, I believe that many would find it helpful if there was a software like r-stripper that solved this problem directly.