Stripping libc on Alpha

[Jeff Bailey]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:21:56PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:

> the Debian glibc build scripts currently disable stripping glibc on
> Alpha explicitely. However, building glibc 2.3 with gcc 3.2 gives a
> 25M unstripped libc (which strips to 1.4M), so I wonder if this is
> really required. Does anybody know the reason why libc shouldn't be
> stripped? Is this still the case with glibc 2.3?

I don't see a reference to it in the changelog - So hopefully Ben
knows.  I'm not sure what a good test would be for this.  Maybe try a
build, go through the source tree and strip the archives, and then run
make check?

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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