strip flag in rpm-build

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 03:34:20 UTC 2003


On Nov 19, 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose at wanadoo.es> wrote:

> is there any reason to put '-g' instead of '-s' in ...?

> brp-strip:      strip -g $f || :
> brp-strip-static-archive:       strip -g $f

> what's about to replace it with eu-strip ?

If you strip a library with -s, IIRC you won't be able to link (ld,
not ld.so or dlopen) with it any more.  Bad idea for -devel libs.

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