[jhallenworld]

On the private symbol issue... there is probably a solution to this already. You can partially link a bunch of object files into a single object file (see ld -r). After this is done, 'strip' the file except for those symbols marked with non-hidden visibility- I've not tried to do this, maybe 'strip -x' does the right thing? Not sure.

[eyalitki]

1. "Advanced" compilation environments (meson) probably limit this ability to some extent. 2. Package managers (rpmbuild for instance) mandate build with debug symbols and they do the strip on their own so to create the debug packages. This limits our control of these steps.