setup-hooks/strip: parallelise stripping

This makes bootstrapping to GNU hello ~1-2% faster on an 8-core
machine and ~3-4% faster on a 64-core machine.
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Linus Heckemann 2022-12-15 23:13:39 +01:00
parent e6ca034dec
commit 70945eb79b

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@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ stripDirs() {
if [ -n "${paths}" ]; then
echo "stripping (with command $cmd and flags $stripFlags) in $paths"
# Do not strip lib/debug. This is a directory used by setup-hooks/separate-debug-info.sh.
find $paths -type f -a '!' -wholename "$prefix/lib/debug/*" -exec $cmd $stripFlags '{}' \; 2>/dev/null
find $paths -type f -a '!' -path "$prefix/lib/debug/*" -print0 |
xargs -r -0 -n1 -P "$NIX_BUILD_CORES" $cmd $stripFlags 2>/dev/null || exit_code=$?
# xargs exits with status code 123 if some but not all of the
# processes fail. We don't care if some of the files couldn't
# be stripped, so ignore specifically this code.
[[ "$exit_code" = 123 || -z "$exit_code" ]]
# 'strip' does not normally preserve archive index in .a files.
# This usually causes linking failures against static libs like:
# ld: ...-i686-w64-mingw32-stage-final-gcc-13.0.0-lib/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libstdc++.dll.a: