[pacman-dev] Maybe some problems with pacman-git

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 9, 2008 11:00 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 10:58 AM, Karolina Lindqvist
> <karolina.lindqvist at kramnet.se> wrote:
> > onsdag 09 januari 2008 skrev Aaron Griffin:
> >
> > > Actually, I'd prefer if the symbols were NOT in klibc. Being that this
> > > is early-userspace, we want to minimize the size and decompression
> > > overhead as the entire rest of the system is waiting for this to
> > > complete.
> > >
> > > Assuming this is a corner case, could we set things up such that
> > > options=(strip) forces the strip?
> >
> > The symbols are needed for building of klibc-extras, klibc-udev and I think,
> > also klibc-module-init-tools.
>
> I think you missed the point here, Aaron. It is hard to compile
> anything against a shared lib if it has *no symbols at all*. Actually
> impossible as far as I know...

I meant debugging symbols and all that... there was a period of time
when they were all being built with debug enabled.

> And options=(strip) would already force the strip, and that is the
> makepkg.conf default anyway.

I meant this in a different way, but now realize that it sounded
stupid. Even forcing the strip blows things up because it detects the
type wrong, so yeah, back to square one.