On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 12:51:14 +0100 Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Mattias, > The -s flag previously called strip(1) on the installed file. > This patch changes install(1)'s behaviour to ignore -s. > > Many makefiles use the -s flag, so it has to be recognised for > compatibility, however it does not have to do anything because > symbols do not negatively affect the functionallity of binaries. > > Ignoring -s have the added benefit that the user do not need > to edit makefiles if they want the symbols that are useful for > debugging. If the user wants to strip away symbols, it can be > done manually or automatically by the package manager. thanks, applied! I favor just not documenting the s-flag in xinstall.1, but understand both sides of the argument. We have many examples in sbase, like sort -m, but also as we can see install -c and others. Maybe we can discuss this here. Another alternative would be to put that in a NOTES section. I really don't want to see the manpages filled up with ignored options, making them harder to read. On the other hand, a manpage should reflect the code and no matter how we put it, we do handle the c and s flags specially here. Cheers Laslo -- Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
