1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/webkitgtk/webkitgtk3_2.42.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/webkitgtk/webkitgtk3_2.42.0.bb
index 5f94d32ee4..8962dbfe7d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/webkitgtk/webkitgtk3_2.42.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/webkitgtk/webkitgtk3_2.42.0.bb
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
                 ${@bb.utils.contains('GIDOCGEN_ENABLED', 'True', '-DENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=ON', '-DENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=OFF', d)} \
                 -DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON \
                 "
+# Unless DEBUG_BUILD is enabled, pass -g1 to massively reduce the size of the
+# debug symbols (4.3GB to 700M at time of writing)
+DEBUG_FLAGS:append = "${@oe.utils.vartrue('DEBUG_BUILD', '', ' -g1', d)}"
 
 # Javascript JIT is not supported on ARC
 EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:arc = " -DENABLE_JIT=OFF "