Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!
repoen 23618 stop I'm sorry, but saying that I should not use debmake because it is buggy does not fix the bug and the bug should not be closed! Corrupting files in packages that I am building is very serious indeed, and if I didn't set the severity to important or greater, I probably should have. debstd issues no warnings about it, and it took me several hours to figure out the problem, since this is a package with a source tree of over 100 megs and each rebuild takes in excess of 30 minutes. (Not only that, but the install method is complex and I looked everywhere else first, assuming that it could not possibly be debstd) Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debstd is not supposed to guess that. stripping a library using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the remaining 5%, then the debstd provided by debmake is not suitable for your package. I would suggest either: a) debstd-ize your debian/rules Eh? debian/rules already uses debstd. b) copy debstd to your debian directory and change the debstd invocation by debian/debstd (probably adding a chmod +x debian/debstd in the build target). Then you can fine-tune your own debstd according to the special requirements of your package. OK, this could be a possibility then -- comment out that part. But still, I don't think it's a good solution to require me to hack the source. Further, there is no documentation anywhere that indicates that debstd may corrupt files. I do not consider this to be a bug in debstd. You are welcome to reassign it to the appropriate package (binutils?) then, but it is not fixed and should not be closed. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I will repeat what I said: debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the remaining 5%, then the debstd provided by debmake, as is, is not suitable for your package. I would like to add that there are two different issues here: 1. You didn't know that debstd does strip --strip-debug on static libraries. By reading debstd(1), I realize that this may be a documentation bug in debmake, if you like. In such case I can retitle this bug to something like debstd behaviour is not fully documented and add a phrase saying debstd strips static libraries in the man page. Ok? 2. Normal strip seems to mess up a coff library. This is a completely different issue. If you think this is a bug in binutils, submit a bug against binutils. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNYq2XCqK7IlOjMLFAQEyPQP/W5ydMmQqHu52kWqt4hAH3zp2V7vqzpEx GoNuUK9/N2pjwGjoYAalgIUeNXZ6o7H9F+85gfK0p/Ra07CUgxpDg4k0qG+ZwLDI pL1oRyiFpP9iJRtVto1iLJbsbuAzzoQj7C1r4lOKlWpMPbDa1rMl7goNoFXcXaxL FJyPqs2YSvM= =4p2t -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!
reopen 23618 reassign 23618 binutils quit Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the remaining 5%, then the debstd provided by debmake, as is, is not suitable for your package. I would say that debstd should not touch that which it does not understand. This is perfectly reasonable. It does not understand coff, which is fine. It should not touch it, though. It so happens that touching it reduces a package with 100 megs of source to less usefulness than cat. 2. Normal strip seems to mess up a coff library. This is a completely different issue. If you think this is a bug in binutils, submit a bug against binutils. I have reassigned this one to binutils then. Closing it is not appropriate since the problem has not been dealt with. Also, file corruption is not a documentation issue only. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
