From 6498f468afc29293cc602e29fe5448cfd046d657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuck <chuck@intelligence.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:08:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] WriteHaskell: Strip binaries

This reduces the size of Hello World [1] from 3.06 MiB to 678 KiB.

[1] As measured by nix-shell -p 'writers.writeHaskellBin "hello" {} "main = putStrLn \"hello\""' --run 'ls -l `which hello`'
---
 pkgs/build-support/writers/default.nix | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/writers/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/writers/default.nix
index 2cd4f1af022b..b90c6490e4a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/writers/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/writers/default.nix
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ rec {
         cp $contentPath tmp.hs
         ${ghc.withPackages (_: libraries )}/bin/ghc tmp.hs
         mv tmp $out
+        ${pkgs.binutils-unwrapped}/bin/strip --strip-unneeded "$out"
       '';
     } name;