Re: Stripping libc on Alpha
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:02:08AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Hmm...I can't recall right now why we chose to not strip it. You
> > could always give it a go and see what happens. I'll dig through
> > some old notes and see if I can come up with an answer as to why
> > we did that. I seem to recall that it had to be unstripped when
> > our toolchain wasn't as mature, but I'm not sure.
> Well, running programs and compiling stuff seems to work (at least I
> got a few gccs bootstrapped). I havend yet tried whether it confuses
> gdb or so...
Is there any reason I shouldn't strip the alpha deb? If you're able
to boot and run, then I'm inclined to just do it. Lemme know, I'm
doing another upload tonight.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
--
learning from failures is nice in theory...
but in practice, it sucks :)
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