Re: Lintian errors and warnings
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:08:12AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:
> > Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on
> > the binaries?
>
> Carlos Laviola <claviola@ajato.com.br> writes:
> > Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules to strip
> > these sections out of the binaries when building the package.
>
> Thanks to both of you. I have always used the -s option for
> install, which obviously doesn't do enough. As I mentioned, neither
> .note or .comment appears in either the binaries or the source. Are
> these sections automatically created by the compiler?
I believe so.
> What are these sections for?
Well... compiler notes and comments? :) The gcc version string or something.
> If lintian objects to them, shouldn't policy mention stripping them?
Doesn't it already?
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