From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.12] (helo=lo.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N1EVe-00079J-7B for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:24:29 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N1EUf-0001oy-A9 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:25 +0200 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:25 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200910230504.57681.holger+oe@freyther.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090811 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <200910230504.57681.holger+oe@freyther.de> Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: Revert "package bbclass: strip static libs as well" X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:24:29 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 23-10-09 05:04, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: > Hey Koen, All, > > I would like to revert: > 8fec15f70dcd0a8543b0af3ec256bf9cd108281e > 98a7d32826bc362c4ee434e7a4def7c852e75281 > > The reason is that: > This commit has introduced several breakages including > stripping libc_nonshared.a breaking the gcc in the SDK and > for the device. > It has created build errors in meta-toolchain for binutils, gdb > see my illfated patch... > > I don't think we need to strip .a files as they will not end on the device They do actually > and people will link their binaries to them and we will strip the binaries. There was a discussion about that and I didn't see people objection, the only point of contention was where to package the debug symbols. How do you propropose to solve the problem that the .a files are huge? Also, you don't mention any problems, you only say "I [..] think", which usually isn't a good enough reason to revert stuff :) regards, Koen