[tor-dev] Release: obfs4proxy-0.0.5

[David Fifield]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:48:53PM +0000, Yawning Angel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:03:58 -0400 (EDT)
> "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder at snydernet.net> wrote:
> > The v0.5 binary is substantially larger than the v0.4 binary (7204KB
> > vs.5408KB, both built with Go v1.4.2).
> > 
> > Is this expected behavior with the newer version of obfs4proxy?
> 
> Building on linux/amd64 with 1.4.2 I get:
> 
>  * 0.0.4 7441792
>  * 0.0.5 7424544
> 
> If I strip either binary I get something in the 5 MiB range, so that
> might be where the difference is coming from, though I would strongly
> discourage doing so as it is not something that is supported by the
> toolchain developers[0], and if a binary that has been stripped breaks,
> I'm not going to do anything about it beyond saying "don't do that".

In Tor Browser we build with
	go build -ldflags '-s'

https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/gitian/descriptors/linux/gitian-pluggable-transports.yml?id=d4e10e98af5237ed21796a4d48c3e09db6994959#n209

Check discussion here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12649

David Fifield