On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Stuart Anderson wrote: > I seemed to miss the patch mentioned, but my guess would be that it involves > wether or not to pass -s to install? > > The modules that get loaded can't get completely stripped, or they loose the > symbol & relocation information which is required for loading. It is probably > OK to strip out some other stuff like debugging info. > > I just peeked at the config file, and I don't see where -s is getting set. Is > this a patch to another patch? Has the default behavior of install changed? > Should I just wait for the coffee to kick in and then all this will make > sense?
Not really...it's not -s that's the problem, it's dh_strip. In the patch, I placed an ifeq in the rules file that made it so that, on Alpha, dh_strip is called with '-Nxserver-xfree86', but on other archs, it isn't. C
