Arch Linux

There's a lot of other files in /usr/bin that aren't stripped either...

root ~ # file /usr/bin/* | grep 'not stripped' | wc -l
182
root ~ #

Some packages in that list not directly related to Gnome are Totem, Synergy and Evolution

root ~ # ls -lh /usr/bin/synergy*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.6M 2008-10-13 01:08 /usr/bin/synergyc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.9M 2008-10-13 01:08 /usr/bin/synergys
root ~ # strip /usr/bin/synergy*
root ~ # ls -lh /usr/bin/synergy*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 395K 2008-10-28 18:51 /usr/bin/synergyc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 572K 2008-10-28 18:51 /usr/bin/synergys
root ~ # pacman -Q synergy
synergy 1.3.1-2
root ~ #

Perhaps a bug in makepkg if it is supposed to strip the binaries? synergy was installed from AUR so definitely went through makepkg.

Are you sure it was installed from the AUR? There is a synergy package in [extra].

This seems to be a problem with the build enviroment.
I buildt a new package from the abs tree, and my pkg/usr/bin/gedit is stripped.

@Allan - if it's in extra, then maybe it was installed from there. Sorry; I thought it hadn't made it out of AUR yet. Is there a way to tell when it was moved? I'm sure I installed from AUR. It would have been installed around early June this year.

You can use "pacman -Qi <pkg>" to see who built a package.

OK, it was installed from extra. My bad :)
$ pacman -Qi synergy
Name : synergy
Version : 1.3.1-2
URL : http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gcc-libs libxtst libsm libxinerama
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 8668.00 K
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Architecture : i686
Build Date : Mon 13 Oct 2008 01:08:46 EST
Install Date : Wed 15 Oct 2008 17:36:39 EST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple pcs

A problem with Jan de Groot's environment?

root ~ # pacman -Qi `file /usr/bin/* | grep 'not stripped' | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d/ -f4 | cut -d: -f1` | grep -E 'Packager|Name'
Name : bug-buddy
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : cheese
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : dasher
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : esd
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : evolution
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : file-roller
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gcalctool
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gconf-editor
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-control-center
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-keyring
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-panel
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-power-manager
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-screensaver
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-settings-daemon
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-system-monitor
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gnome-terminal
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gok
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : gucharmap
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : metacity
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : nautilus
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : nautilus-cd-burner
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : seahorse
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : smbclient
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Name : sound-juicer
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : totem
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : vte
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : yelp
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Name : zenity
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>

Checked my buildmachine, it had !strip set in makepkg.conf.

I'm guessing this could be closed now then? :)