On Friday 11 November 2016 12:46 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
We currently call /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive from %__os_install_post. This removes debugging symbols from static (.a) libraries.
Is this really a good idea? Due to this, glibc copies libc.a to glibc-debuginfo, so that you can get a link with debugging symbols by specifying “-static -L/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64“ (potentially with unintended side effects). I would like to get this to work by default.
If developers does not want debugging symbols and static libraries have them, they can link with -s, or strip the linked object.
What happens if a program built without -g is linked to the libc.a with debug symbols? If it does the right thing by not including debug symbols then I think your suggestion is the right way forward. Otherwise we need to fix the linker to not include debug symbols first.
Siddhesh