[buildroot] $(STRIP) --strip-unneeded on a SHARED library...WHY?
Peter S. Mazinger
ps.m at gmx.net
Tue Dec 6 20:06:22 UTC 2005
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, John Z. Bohach wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:25, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > are you sure you used the correct strip (it is that you render your libs
> > useless, if you use the host strip against the cross-compiled libs)
> >
> > Peter
>
> Sorry, I thought this would be more obvious. I don't want to start a big long
> thread, so specifically, in buildroot/packages/Makefile.in, we have:
>
> STRIP=$(TARGET_CROSS)strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
>
> which is fine. But then later, specific package makefiles do this:
generally yes, .note should be stripped only if it is unallocated
>
> package/ncurses.mk:
> -$(STRIP) --strip-unneeded $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/libncurses.so.$(NCURSES_VER)
>
> and package/berkelybd.mk
> -$(STRIP) --strip-unneeded $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/libdb*so*
>
> which is not fine, because all symbol information from the libraries is now
> removed, and whenever a linker tries linking against thusly stripped
> libraries, you get "undefined symbol..." errors.
list those undefined ones...
Peter
>
> Just an FYI, and a learning point.
>
> --john
>
> P.S.: freetype, directfb, libpng, libsys, and more all suffer from this, so
> whatever the thinking was, it was contagious...
>
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