[luatex] Using a Lua C .so module with LuaLaTeX

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:48 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>> Luigi, what exactly does the following chunk of code do in build.sh?
>>
>> if [ "$STRIP_LUATEX" = "FALSE" ]
>> then
>>     export CFLAGS
>>     export CXXFLAGS
>> fi
>
>
> uh.. it's there from beta-0.72.0.. I don't remember.
> Could be a leftover from the --debug switch, probably not all the code taken
> the -g switches correctly at that time.
> We will  remove for TL 2016, if the case.

My question is: can you explain the difference?

I'm unable to understand what is different when you call that export
and when you don't. Because the --nostrip binaries are 50% bigger even
after I run strip manually and this seems like the only place one
could blame for the difference.

Mojca