Hi Tomas, thank you for the explanation. I'm not familiar at all with the C world as you just saw.
Regards Eike Tomas Hlavaty <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Eike, > >> I just found out that this is the strip utility from binutils and I'm >> wondering how it can do such a harm… > > strip does what it is supposed to do. In the usual C world, executables > can contain lots of other information, e.g. debugging symbols etc. > strip removes this additional information while it is not usually needed > on production systems and take significant amount of space. > > However, you tried to create a self-contained sbcl executable > application in one executable file. This means that the lisp image > (usually a separate file) is concatenated to the executable file. If > you run strip on this executable, it will remove the lisp image, > breaking the application. > > Cheers, > > Tomas _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
