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

[Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 21:45:12 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >             Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > : Is it not common standard to install stripped binaries?  If it is not,
> > : where is it documented?
> >
> > It is standard.
>
> Does anyone know what the various ports packages do?  If everyone is
> modifying the Makefile to not strip by default (and they are stripping
> on install), then I think we ought to do the same.  If you're installing
> from source, chances are you'd prefer the executable to have debug symbols.

Gentoo's portage per default strips all binaries on install step unless you 
specify FEATURES="nostrip". So there the package management system (=portage) 
is in charge of stripping the binaries. Portage even warns about pre-stiped 
binaries.

I think the default should be to let the binaries unstripped unless the user 
explicitly wants to do this during install.

With regards,
Jan