reopen 23618 reassign 23618 binutils quit Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff > format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library > using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the > remaining 5%, then the debstd provided by debmake, as is, is not suitable > for your package. I would say that debstd should not touch that which it does not understand. This is perfectly reasonable. It does not understand coff, which is fine. It should not touch it, though. It so happens that touching it reduces a package with 100 megs of source to less usefulness than cat. > 2. Normal strip seems to mess up a coff library. This is a completely > different issue. If you think this is a bug in binutils, submit a bug > against binutils. I have reassigned this one to binutils then. Closing it is not appropriate since the problem has not been dealt with. Also, file corruption is not a documentation issue only. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
