Re: stripping binaries

[jgauthier kamikaze whiteboard net]

I had the same problem. here's what i learned.
stripping a static library can have the symbols repaired with
ar -ts library.a
I don't remember if shared is a problem or not. when I run configure
I usually just do this:
CXXFLAGS=-O6 CFLAGS=-O6 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome
(egcs)
This way they don't compiled with debugging symbols, making them *huge*


On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Brian M Dial wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> 	Could someone give me a quick rundown on when it is or isn't good to
> strip libraries?  I'm making packages and after stripping ORBit
> libraries I can't compile gnome-libs because I get undefined references
> to `impl_CosNaming_NamingContext__create'
> .  However, if I leave the libraries unstripped they compile fine (but
> are just incredibly large.  I tried the --strip-unneeded option with
> strip but it still happened.  Now what I think is that I could strip
> them after compiling everything but will that then cause some of the
> stuff not to work when installed by the stripped packages?
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
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