Re: A problem with dh_strip
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am trying to create a Debian package for the Pict programming language.
>
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.html
>
> The package itself is here
> http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/pool/main/p/pict/pict_4.1.0-1.dsc
>
> I have successfully built it within pbuilder environment. However, I
> have observed a weird behavior of the binary when I let dh_strip it.
>
> The binary is installed into
> /usr/lib/pict/pict
>
> (the /usr/bin/pict is only a script that calls the binary with pre-set
> environment variables required by the original software)
>
> The original and the dh_stripped versions of the binary differ
> - the original does recognize the `--help' option,
> the dh_stripped does not recognize it
> - when I run the original binary without any parameters, it complains
> "You must specify exactly one input file"
> whereas the dh_stripped bersion prints something else.
> - and other things
>
> <SPECULATION>
> Major part of the orignal binary is compiled from OCAML sources so maybe
> there is some specific error behavior of dh_strip related to these kind
> of binaries.
> </SPECULATION>
You speculated correctly:
#256900: ocaml: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped, hence either
don't work or violate policy
Justin
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