George Metz wrote:
>On Thu, 10 May 2001, Ewald Wasscher wrote:
>
>>Could it be that the new libs are more thoroughly stripped? The default
>>Eigerstein2Beta glibc libraries (which I suspect to be debian's) get
>>smaller when stripped with:
>>
>>strip --strip-unneeded -R.note -R.comment
>>
>
>Um, out of curiosity, what do these options do? It'd be worth trying, if
>it won't break stuff, on glibc 2.1.3. All I've ever used is 'strip
>file.foo', just like David.
>
"strip -R" is equivalent to "strip --remove-section", so some extra
information is removed from the binary. I have to admit that I don't
really know what information these sections contain. So far I have
gotten away with it. But as it seems that on the newer debian
distributions (woody/sid, don't know about potato) shared libraries are
stripped this way (take a peek at /usr/bin/dh_strip) I think we can
assume it's safe to do this. Of course I would also like to know what
happens _exactly_
Ewald Wasscher
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