On 28-Jun-99 Stephen J Baker wrote:
>> This is not portable. Many platforms don't support
>> stripping of libraries. The user can strip the library by hand
>> or use a precompiled package. This works for thousands of other
>> Open Source packages that use auto*/libtool as well.
> Can you still use dlsym to extract the addresses of extension functions
> after it's been stripped? If not, then stripping is a "no-no" because
> OpenGL programs like Quake have to search for symbol addresses.
It's possible but you have to be careful:
you must use "strip --strip-unneeded" for shared libraries
and "strip --strip-debug" for static ones and this is only
known to work with GNU strip (binutils).
We could add a `strip' rule to the Makefiles so that a user
could run "./configure; make; make strip; make install" on
GNU platforms.
In the future (automake 1.5) "make install-strip" will do the same.
Thomas Tanner -----------------------------------------
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