The directory exists, that's not the problem. The issue is that it's far larger than it needs to be: we could save bandwidth and time. (.venv) bcran@cube:~/src/uefi/tmp/edk2/BaseTools/Bin/gcc_loongarch64_unknown_linux_extdep$ ldd bin/loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-* ... bin/loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc: not a dynamic executable ... (.venv) bcran@cube:~/src/uefi/tmp/edk2/BaseTools/Bin/gcc_loongarch64_unknown_linux_extdep$ du -h --max-depth=3 4.0K ./include 66M ./bin 134M ./libexec/gcc/loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 134M ./libexec/gcc 134M ./libexec ... 40M ./share 23M ./lib/gcc/loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 23M ./lib/gcc 12K ./lib/bfd-plugins 23M ./lib ... 37M ./loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 396M ./target/usr/include 2.6G ./target/usr/lib64 4.0K ./target/usr/lib 3.0G ./target/usr 3.0G ./target 3.2G . -- Rebecca Cran On 12/29/22 19:11, gaoliming wrote: > Rebecca: > BaseTools/Bin/gcc_loongarch64_unknown_linux_extdep directory should be created after Stuart build. Please confirm it. > > Thanks > Liming >> -----邮件原件----- >> 发件人:devel@edk2.groups.io 代表 Rebecca Cran >> 发送时间: 2022年12月28日 16:15 >> 收件人: Chao Li; Baoqi Zhang >> ; Dongyan Qian >> 抄送:devel@edk2.groups.io; Michael D Kinney >> 主题: [edk2-devel] Reducing the size of the loongarch64 toolchain download >> >> I noticed the BaseTools/Bin/gcc_loongarch64_unknown_linux_extdep >> directory is 3.2GB. However, 2.6GB of that is from target/usr/lib64 >> (which includes X and Qt libraries). >> >> Since it appears the gcc binaries are statically linked, I was wondering >> if the lib and lib64 directories could be excluded from future uploads? >> >> >> -- >> Rebecca Cran >> >> >> >> >> > >