[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: make strip options configurable

[Allan McRae]

Cedric Staniewski wrote:
> The newly added variables STRIP_BINARIES, STRIP_SHARED and STRIP_STATIC,
> that are set in makepkg.conf, specify the strip options used on binaries
> and shared and static libraries.
> In addition, files are now stripped more aggressively by default.
> 
> Implements FS#13592 the way it was suggested by Allan in the comments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca>
> ---
> 
> There are only two minor changes in this patch compared to the initial one.
> 
> * removed an unneeded "@rm -f $@.tmp" from the following code section:
> 
>  # These rules are due to the includes and files of the asciidoc text
> $(ASCIIDOC_MANS): asciidoc.conf footer.txt Makefile
> 	@echo GEN $@;
> 	@rm -f $@.tmp
> 	@test -f $(srcdir)/$@.txt && $(edit) $(srcdir)/$@.txt >$@.tmp || true
> 	a2x $(A2X_OPTS) --asciidoc-opts="$(ASCIIDOC_OPTS)" $@.tmp
> 	@rm -f $@.tmp
> 
> 
> * changed an output message to reflect the new default strip options
> 
> -		msg2 "$(gettext "Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...")"
> +		msg2 "$(gettext "Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...")"
> 
<snip>

Updated on my working branch.  We need to remember that message when 
release time comes or else it will likely be missed in translation updates.

Allan