[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Only change debug prefix if making debug package

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Jul 30 06:06:08 UTC 2019


On 30/7/19 3:33 pm, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> glibc is forcing !strip because it needs to manually strip and thereby
> exclude a few files from being stripped. I have a better solution in
> aur/glibc-git for this which could probably be used.

The Arch glibc package does this because Arch still does not have debug
symbol package repositories and valgrind+gdb rely on them.

That is an Arch limitation, and not something that concerns pacman/makepkg.

Allan


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