On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Thomas Tanner wrote:
>
> On 24-Jun-99 Holger Waechtler wrote:
> >> > Should the final release generate a stripped library, which is smaller ?
> >> Yes, but automake 1.4 doesn't support it, only the latest CVS snapshots
> >> of automake and libtool do :-(
> > Is there a problem to run strip libMesaGL*.so* in the release target of
> > the Makefiles ??
>
> This is not portable. Many platforms don't support
> stripping of libraries. The user can strip the library by hand
> or use a precompiled package. This works for thousands of other
> Open Source packages that use auto*/libtool as well.
Can you still use dlsym to extract the addresses of extension functions
after it's been stripped? If not, then stripping is a "no-no" because
OpenGL programs like Quake have to search for symbol addresses.
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