striping .a files

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Michal Moskal wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:36:53PM +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Michal Moskal wrote:
> > 
> > > Why don't we strip them (i.e. why arn't they striped when .so files
> > > are)? Debug symbols are not included in most cases anyway. Without strip
> > > libjava.a (from gcc) is over 40 megs big. I'm intrested in it, since
> > > ocaml package often use .a libraries, and they should be striped.
> > > 
> > > Should I add this to our rpm scripts?
> > 
> > No. Not using -g options not mean you not generate debuging informations. 
> > It is included anyway .. but less.
> 
> So? Are you going to link anything staticaly just to debug it? In order
> to debug it properly you gonna have to have sources anyway. Therefore
> you can build package with --debug. 

Of course nott but with this stub debug level information you can find for
example line number in back trace.

kloczek
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