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Re: strip makes libs unusable


On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:02:49PM +0000, Joseph Fago wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > 
> > Joseph Fago <cfago@tconl.com> writes:
> > 
> > |> what library to link with? Which one is it in? You could have run 'nm'
> > |> to find out... but wait, all the symbols are gone.
> > 
> > What are you talking about? The dynamic symbol table is still there.
> 
> Well, we've opened quite a smelly can of worms here...
> 
> Have you noticed that [strip] --strip-all, --strip-debug, and --strip-unneeded
> have exactly the same results? This has not always been the case, nor does
> that Fine Manual indicate that it should be. --strip-all really did, at one
> time, strip ALL (the default) and 'nm -D' was useless, as well as the libs.

I think we can trust that people able to compile glibc-2.1.2 on their
systems don't have binutils that old. I don't see the point of this
discussion. Stripping shared libs works.

Ronald


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