stripped binaries

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at hmh.eng.br
Fri Aug 2 16:09:08 CEST 2013


On Fri, 02 Aug 2013, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:54:00PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> > Currently tools/Makefile.in explicitly strips every binary it installs  
> > via '$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -s'.
> > Usually INSTALL_PROGRAM already has '-s' set (unless user specified he  
> > wants unstripped binary)
> 
> Well, AFAIK INSTALL_PROGRAM do not have '-s' by default (at least not
> on my system and also according to Autoconf documentation).
> 
> But as both GNU coding standards and FreeBSD Porter's Handbook say that
> 'make install' shouldn't strip binaries by default, i will apply the
> patch.

The coding standards say that because any decent distro will strip symbols
from the regular binary packages, and keep them for the debug packages.

If you strip them upstream, we have to patch the build system to get rid of
that.

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  Henrique Holschuh



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