On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:23:54AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > How can I strip only "foo.opt" using dh_strip?
>
> The short answer is: you can't.
>
> In dh_strip:
>
> foreach my $f (@{$dh{EXCLUDE}}) {
> return if ($fn=~m/\Q$f\E/);
> }I saw it, but I hoped that some test elsewhere in the dh_strip code permit what I'm trying to do. > So, don't use dh_strip. dh_strip is a simple tool for simple > configurations; if you have one binary you need stripped, and one binary > you need left alone, and dh_strip doesn't do the trick, call strip > yourself. > > strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note path/to/foo.opt Yes, this is the obvious solution, but if someone will change the behaviour of "standard" debian stripping (e.g. add another --remove-section argument) I have to change my "strip" invocation. That's it. BTW, this is a shared problem between all debhelper programs that support "-X" flag (I think almost all), why does not exists the possibility to use a list of file that have to be stripped like a debian/strip file? TNX, cheers. -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of Bologna, Italy - Information wants to be Open -
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