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From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: markmc@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:11:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326221122.GA25747@kos.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090326.151638.188888765.imp@bsdimp.com>

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?

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.

> : 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...

-- 
"rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-26 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 18:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile Glauber Costa
2009-03-25 19:49 ` Riku Voipio
2009-03-25 19:56   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-26 18:34     ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-26 18:50     ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-26 19:02       ` M. Warner Losh
2009-03-26 19:08         ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-26 19:20           ` Michael Jennings
2009-03-26 19:30           ` M. Warner Losh
2009-03-26 19:48             ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-26 20:07               ` M. Warner Losh
2009-03-26 21:47                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-26 21:09             ` Riku Voipio
2009-03-26 21:16               ` M. Warner Losh
2009-03-26 22:11                 ` Riku Voipio [this message]
2009-03-26 23:11                   ` M. Warner Losh
2009-03-26 21:42             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-03-26 21:45               ` Robert Riebisch
2009-03-26 19:19       ` Riku Voipio
2009-03-25 20:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-25 20:26   ` M. Warner Losh
2009-03-25 20:45     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-03  9:27       ` Jan Marten Simons

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