On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:42:57PM -0500, David Terrell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:29:33PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On 3/22/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Or is it that strip -s removes all symbols and it was only intended to > > >remove the debug symbols. The libs won't work? > > > > yes, libs without symbols aren't especially useful for future development. > > Also, stripping static libs has ZERO impact on your installed > system, it only affects things you compile from source on that > box. (and, as you mention -- negatively).
So the laugh was that the poor fellow has hosed his machine and won't know it until the next time he has to compile a patch? Sort of like /bin/rm -rf / instead of rm -f /bin/laden? Doug.
