On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:22:04PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > tags 436498 +patch > thanks > > On 07/08/07 23:06 +0200, Julien Danjou said ... > > If you call dh_strip correctly in debian/rules, this may mean that upstream > > axel doesn't use debhelper, so dh_strip is not called. > > > > -> Building the package > > > Setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip > > > > > > ./configure --i18n=1 --debug=0 --prefix=/usr --etcdir=/etc > > > The strip option is enabled. This should not be a problem usually, but on > > > some > > > systems it breaks stuff. > > The --strip option can be passed to configure and it is enabled by > default: Normally packages are compiled with -O2 -g and then dh_strip handles stripping to debian policy (removing the comment section too and such). Most often this bug is caused by the package installation itself calling strip, eg. with install -s.
So this is just a heads up that: . the upstream package's strip may not strip the comment section or other things Debian wants stripped; . calling with nostrip should should include full -g debugging symbols; Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
