strip hls .so's?

[unhammer]

I used to download a hls release from github, last time I did this for 8.10.7, the resulting file took 140M. Now I tried ghcup because there are no longer hls releases and it had to download for five different ghc's which altogether takes up 1.9G.

Can/should ghcup at least strip the .so's? That brings e.g. lib/8.10.7 down from 348M to 261M.

(It'd also be nice if it could just download the hls for the ghc I'm actually using, but I can understand if that's more complicated.)

[hasufell]

For stripping binaries, that's a HLS issue. Maybe the new CI has a bug.

See

• haskell-language-server/.github/scripts/build.sh

  Line 56 in 81dcefc

  emake --version

• haskell-language-server/GNUmakefile

  Line 103 in 81dcefc

  $(STRIP_S) "$(ROOT_DIR)/out/$(ARTIFACT)/$(GHC_VERSION)/haskell-language-server"

Looks to me it strips?

---

For removing redundant HLSes, check out ghcup gc --help.

[unhammer]

Aha,

  -h,--hls-no-ghc          Remove HLS versions that don't have a corresponding
                           installed GHC version

seems handy :-) I didn't find it in the tui (and thought of it as an install-option rather than uninstall option) so I didn't think to check the cli.

[michaelpj]

I'm going to tentatively close this since it sounds like there shouldn't be an issue and the problem is maybe resolved? Please reopen if you disagree.

[hasufell]

@michaelpj we only strip the binaries, not the so's. So the report is valid.