On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:54:38PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > Actually, dh_strip does more than install -s:
> > >
> > > foreach (@executables) {
> > >
> > > doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment","--remove-section=.note",$_);
> > > }
> >
> > IIRC Debian's "strip" was once patched to use these flags by default.
> > Don't know whether this is still true, however.
Ah, confusion on my part, it's "install -s" which got patched:
/tmp[535]$ echo 'main(){}' > foo.c
/tmp[536]$ gcc foo.c -o foo
/tmp[537]$ ll foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dwitch users 4650 oct 19 22:36 foo
/tmp[538]$ install -s foo foo2
/tmp[539]$ ll foo2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dwitch users 2424 oct 19 22:36 foo2
/tmp[540]$ strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note foo
/tmp[541]$ ll foo2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dwitch users 2424 oct 19 22:36 foo2
... so that dh_strip does not more than "install -s" :)
So Wichert's suggestion definitively looks like the way to go:
> So modify AM_INSTALL_PROGRAM_FLAGS instead if you want to add the -s
> somewhere there, a much safer solution.
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