* binutils creates hard links to the programs in $out/bin in

$out/<platform>/bin.  Because the fixup phase causes those to be
  replaced by identical copies, use symlinks instead of hardlinks.
  This saves about 9 MB.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=19549

pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix

@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
 	echo 'NATIVE_LIB_DIRS=' >> ld/configure.tgt
     fi
+
+    # Use symlinks instead of hard links to save space ("strip" in the
+    # fixup phase strips each hard link separately).
+    for i in binutils/Makefile.in gas/Makefile.in ld/Makefile.in; do
+        substituteInPlace $i --replace 'ln ' 'ln -s '
+    done
   '';
 
   configureFlags = "--disable-werror" # needed for dietlibc build