Stripping libc on Alpha

[H. J. Lu]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:44:22PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> "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?

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-09/msg00420.html


H.J.