[pacman-dev] Issues with strip on package sources

[Allan McRae]

On 08/04/11 21:57, Mathew de Detrich wrote:
> A problem that seems to be occurring on packages (typically on AUR) where
> makepkg using gnu's strip causes the package building process to fail (since
> /usr/bin/strip terminates with a different error message) when there is an
> incompatible object file in the source. As an example with this current
> package (read the latest comments)
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31566
>
> It fails to build unless you add
> options=(!strip)
> into the PKGBUILD, which of course solves the problem in a bastardized way
> since it doesn't strip anything at all (and causes ridiculously bloated
> packages)
>
> In this case the problem seems to be that the source package contains an
> object file from a different architecture (x64) which when stripped, causes
> the strip to prematurely terminate (and thus the building of the package to
> fail)
>
> I looked through the man page for strip and there doesn't seem to be an
> option for it to continue stripping even if it hits an incompatible source
> file. The other option I guess would be to add more granularity (or another
> option) where you can provide a mask for objects not to be stripped (so you
> can do something like *64.so and any file matching that mask wont be
> stripped). Or you could manually invoke strip on every object file, and not
> terminate the makepkg process should it hit an "incompatible" object file
>
> In any case its an annoyance
>

I can not be sure given no-one who hits this issue ever posts any actual 
output...   but you are probably hitting this binutils issue:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12632


But anyway, it appears the change from using a whitelist to choose what 
files to strip to attempting to strip everything has caused some 
packaging issues.  So I also think some way to blacklist files/folders 
from being stripped would be useful.

Allan