diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/llvm/llvm_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/llvm/llvm_git.bb
index 6c2e8a5570..8dcd124c71 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/llvm/llvm_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/llvm/llvm_git.bb
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:class-nativesdk = "\
                   -DLLVM_TABLEGEN=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/llvm-tblgen${PV} \
                   -DLLVM_CONFIG_PATH=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/llvm-config${PV} \
                  "
+# Unless DEBUG_BUILD is enabled, pass -g1 to massively reduce the size of the debug symbols
+DEBUG_FLAGS:append = "${@oe.utils.vartrue('DEBUG_BUILD', '', ' -g1', d)}"
 
 do_configure:prepend() {
 # Fix paths in llvm-config