[pacman-dev] Issues with strip on package sources

[Rémy Oudompheng]

On 2011/4/8 Mathew de Detrich <deteego at gmail.com> 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)

What is the point of installing object files for a different
architecture than the target architecture? Is this package a
cross-compilation toolchain?

Regards,
Rémy.