From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Aug 6 00:41:50 2009 From: Eero Tamminen Organization: Koti To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Native gcc 4.4.1 and binutils 2.19.1 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:39:00 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Miro Kropacek , Vincent =?iso-8859-1?q?Rivi=E8re?= References: <4A79FDC7.5060805@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908060739.00960.oak@helsinkinet.fi> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: oak@helsinkinet.fi Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n764fnnd025997 Hi, On Thursday 06 August 2009, Miro Kropacek wrote: > Btw, I've got such feeling stripping is allowed also on libs but one > must use another switch (i.e. not strip -s libc.a but something else) > ? >From the strip manual page: --------- -s --strip-all Remove all symbols. -g -S -d --strip-debug Remove debugging symbols only. --------- Btw. On Debian stripping is done by the packaging tools Debhelper dh_strip script which automatically does the right thing. It also automatically puts the debug symbols to a separate debug symbols file (/usr/lib/debug/) and adds the debug symbol file path & CRC to the binary's .gnu_debuglink section when so requested (with "--dbg-package="dh_strip option). Gdb etc. will then automatically find the debug symbols if they're installed and one doesn't need to have two sets of binaries, one with debug symbols and ones without. Doesn't MiNT RPM & related tools support anything like this? (Nowadays Ubuntu and RedHat build machines do these kind of debug symbol packages automatically and put them to a special repo. As having debug sym packages almost doubles the number of packages, having them in default repo would slow down apt etc. when they check for updates and dependencies. With separate repo one can enable it only when needed.) - Eero