From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmxnL-00078I-Ga for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmxnJ-00075a-P6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33820 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmxnJ-00075M-Ls for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:25 -0400 Received: from naru.obs2.net ([84.20.150.76]:47068 helo=narury.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmxnI-0002NA-T6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:11:22 +0200 From: Riku Voipio Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile Message-ID: <20090326221122.GA25747@kos.to> References: <20090326190810.GH3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090326.133039.-1185935861.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090326210909.GA19263@kos.to> <20090326.151638.188888765.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090326.151638.188888765.imp@bsdimp.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: markmc@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca 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