On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 15:15 +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> Stripping binaries at build time is usually a bad thing since it
> makes
> impossible to generate (split) debug symbols and this can lead to a
> more
> difficult debugging.
> 
> CC: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com>
> Fixes: 27cea11686ff ("net/mlx4: spawn rdma-core dependency plug-in")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredae...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile b/drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile
> index 63bc00337..92e932250 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ endif
>  $(LIB_GLUE): mlx4_glue.o
>       $Q $(LD) $(GLUE_LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) \
>               -Wl,-h,$(LIB_GLUE) \
> -             -s -shared -o $@ $< -libverbs -lmlx4
> +             -shared -o $@ $< -libverbs -lmlx4
>  
>  mlx4_glue.o: mlx4_autoconf.h
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>

Automated tools to generate separate packages with debug symbols (the
standard at least in Debian and derivatives distros) break if a library
is stripped, and it's very hard to notice as well as it's not an error
per se.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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