On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:27:58PM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 00:00:42 +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 
> > I've been considering for a while that we should remove the
> > default build setting of STRIPFLAG=-s (which causes programs to
> > be stripped (with strip(1)) as they're installed (by install(8))
> 
> BTW, is there an opensource analog to SysV mcs(1) (manage comment
> section)?  It can be stripped by adding -R .comment to STRIPFLAG, but
> mcs(1) has a nice -c flag:
> 
>      -c    Compress the contents of the comment  section  of  the
>            ELF  object  files. All duplicate entries are removed.
>            The ordering of the  remaining  entries  is  not  dis-
>            turbed.
> 
> The savings, though, are, arguably, minuscule - e.g. libc.so has a
> .comment section of about 30K.

But only because we don't have #ident lines in all the header files.
Do that and 'mcs -c' is your friend.

IMHO we should build without removing any symbols, then strip for
installation.  The assumption then is that the build tree has the
symbols in it - maybe the unstripped binaries should be available
for the release CDs?

I have had to rebuild programs because they get stripped during build.
That is bad news.  Also removing local symbols can give apparrantly
incorrect stack back-traces, so isn't particularly useful.

It it also possible to do a reasonable amount of debugging with just
the standard symbol table - after all the most usable feature of gdb is
the 'bt' command on a core dump.


	David

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