Strip target libraries

[mid-kid]

What it says on the tin. Few people need the debug information for e.g. newlib, glibc, or mingw. It takes up a significant amount of space and could do with being stripped out.

[cpackham]

Sounds like a reasonable request. We do already have GLIBC_ENABLE_DEBUG (enabled by default) similar settings for newlib, musl and mingw would be welcome. As for flipping the default that would need a bit of co-ordination (e.g. after a release).

[milkylainen]

Usually, stripping libraries and binares in embedded is done by the build environment or build rules.
There are a few bits that might not get stripped, so this feature is handy anyway.
I use it mostly to reduce the actual toolchain footprint.
I have a lot of toolchains and a lot of clean-building. For me, copying less data to the clean builds helps build times and storage space, ever so slightly.