Stripping libc on Alpha

[Falk Hueffner]

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> 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 think it may have something to do with binutils bug. Let me know if
> stripping glibc doesn't work on alpha. But you have to use binutils
> 2.13.90.0.10 or above.

Hm, Debian currently uses binutils 2.13.90.0.4. I've tried stripping
libc.so, and it appears to be working fine. What problems would be to
be expected?

-- 
	Falk