On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:12:04PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Incidentally, is there a reason that the bytecode version stores
> important information in the sections that are stripped? It seems to me
> that this is a bug in the package's build sequence or in the compiler.
> Or is it a file format that can't be stripped, which dh_strip is trying
> to act on anyways (which would be a bug in debhelper)?
Ocaml bytecode executable, that are linked in custom mode contains the
virtual machine and in a text section the code to be executed. So if you
strip such an executable you loose the code and you get only the virtual
machine.
So IMO dh_strip should not strip such executables but the only way for
dh_strip to know that is to use "file" or looking into the executable.
Cheers.
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