Arch Linux

This isn't a bug as much as an annoyance. When using makepkg, 'find' errors are written to stdout during the 'strip' process.

Here's a patch to 'makepkg' to suppress the errors from 'find'.

--- makepkg 2003-12-26 14:28:44.000000000 -0500
+++ makepkg.new 2003-12-26 14:27:19.000000000 -0500
@@ -573,9 +573,22 @@
# strip binaries
if [ "$NOSTRIP" = "0" ]; then
msg "Stripping debugging symbols from libraries..."
- find pkg/{,usr,usr/local,opt/*}/lib -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}' \; 2>&1
+ for libdir in pkg/lib pkg/usr/lib pkg/usr/local/lib pkg/opt/*/lib
+ do
+ if [ -d $libdir ]; then
+ find $libdir -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}' \; 2>&1
+ fi
+ done
+ unset libdir
msg "Stripping symbols from binaries..."
- find pkg/{,usr,usr/local,opt/*}/{bin,sbin} -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip '{}' \; 2>&1
+ for bindir in pkg/bin pkg/sbin pkg/usr/bin pkg/usr/sbin \
+ pkg/usr/local/bin pkg/usr/local/sbin pkg/opt/*/bin
+ do
+ if [ -d $bindir ]; then
+ find $bindir -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip '{}' \; 2>&1
+ fi
+ done
+ unset bindir
fi