Re: Upcoming Debian 2.0 Release
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> Rob Browning wrote:
> > James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
> >
> > > See binutils bug. #24236 is already fixed, Rob was (emphasis on
> > > past tense) waiting on a working strip.
> >
> > And I was also waiting to see if anyone objected to my plan to
> > release an unstripped emacs binary. Since no one has, expect a
> > new upload later today.
>
> IIRC emacs uses a weird building process that involves making a core
> dump of a running emacs and undumping that into a proper
> binary. That's why it can't be stripped.
Umm, I don't think so. Stripping emacs19 works just fine and it uses
the same build process as emacs20. Also strip from binutils 2.8*
*doesn't* hose emacs20.
> This may not be a bug at all.
strip hosing an ordinary (otherwise working) ELF binary (no matter how
it was built) is a bug.
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James
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