Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile

["M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>]

In message: <20090326221122.GA25747@kos.to>
            Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> writes:
: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:16:38PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > I guess this boils down to "It's how its been done since the early
: > 1980's at least" but I do know times change.
: 
: Maybe you have heard about the new kids called GNU?

Nah.  They are just a fad that will fade away soon enough :)

: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Standard-Targets
: 
: I don't think qemu is following GNU guidelines, but these are
: pretty much the makefile targets *most* users expect these days.

These are just the coding standards for FSF projects.  But that does
have a lot of influence on other users in the worlds...

: > : Unconditional stripping is bad, mmkay?
: 
: > Of course.  That's why most systems have a flag called STRIP that's
: > passed to install so that users can turn it on or off, but it defaults
: > to on.
: 
: Personally, this solution would work for me. Not that my random
: sampling from the debian archive found any application that uses
: STRIP in that way - when STRIP was defined, it is usually "strip".
: Including qemu btw...

Yea, don't much work with debians.

Warner