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From: Bruno Clermont <bruno@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] debug symbol
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:27:55
Message-Id: DD47B36D-6915-11D7-A18A-000393712A00@gnome.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] debug symbol by Spider
1 On Lundi, avri 7, 2003, at 04:27 America/Montreal, Spider wrote:
2 > Bruno Clermont <bruno@×××××.ca> wrote:
3 >> I didn't find any mailing-list archive, so this question might been
4 >> already debated.
5 >> The 'debug' USE variable, if set to -debug, still let the libraries
6 >> (and some binaries) un-stripped.
7 >> Is it a good idea to add a variable to force a strip of debug symbols,
8 >> and perform all install(1) with -s or strip manually before
9 >> install/build the binary package?
10 >> I have some systems where smaller is better, so ~15-20 Mb of debug
11 >> symbols is an important gain.
12 > FEATURES="nostrip" the FEATURE to strip is on-by-default unless
13 > explicitly removed inside an ebuild.
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15 I'v seen that, but on a freshly installed system, with -debug, all
16 libraries are not stripped.
17 This rule seem to apply only on binaries.
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