Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!
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I will repeat what I said:
debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff
format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library
using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the
remaining 5%, then the debstd provided by debmake, as is, is not suitable
for your package.
I would like to add that there are two different issues here:
1. You didn't know that debstd does "strip --strip-debug" on static
libraries. By reading debstd(1), I realize that this may be a
"documentation" bug in debmake, if you like. In such case I can retitle
this bug to something like "debstd behaviour is not fully documented" and
add a phrase saying "debstd strips static libraries" in the man page. Ok?
2. Normal strip seems to mess up a coff library. This is a completely
different issue. If you think this is a bug in binutils, submit a bug
against binutils.
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