From c5ea287158483f66b1ea64db9fdb354b4de33d94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Ferreira de Lima <tlima@princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 22:39:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Stripping shared object for linux pymod

---
 setup.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4c01802fa..9b13b54b9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ class Config(object):
             else:
                 loader_path = '$ORIGIN/..'
             args += ['-Wl,-rpath,' + loader_path]
+            # default linux shared object compilation uses the '-g' flag,
+            # which generates unnecessary debug information
+            # removing with strip-all during the linking stage
+            args += ['-Wl,--strip-all']
             return args
 
     def macros(self):