On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:12:04PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > Incidentally, is there a reason that the bytecode version stores > important information in the sections that are stripped? It seems to me > that this is a bug in the package's build sequence or in the compiler. > Or is it a file format that can't be stripped, which dh_strip is trying > to act on anyways (which would be a bug in debhelper)?
Ocaml bytecode executable, that are linked in custom mode contains the virtual machine and in a text section the code to be executed. So if you strip such an executable you loose the code and you get only the virtual machine. So IMO dh_strip should not strip such executables but the only way for dh_strip to know that is to use "file" or looking into the executable. 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 -
msg05280/pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
