FS#46301 - [makepkg] Add a variable to selectively disable stripping binaries in certain directories

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by felix (fstirlitz) - Tuesday, 15 September 2015, 15:31 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category makepkg
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.2.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

PKGBUILDs should be able to specify directories in which binaries should not be stripped, while allowing stripping in other directories. This would be useful for cross-compiler packages (for which some installed object files may be even in a format unrecognised by host binutils, or they should be kept as is for other reasons), which currently have to resort to disabling stripping entirely, even though the compiler binaries themselves can be stripped safely.
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Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 29 April 2018, 13:56 GMT
Our glibc package for example could make use of such a feature. Currently it disables stripping and manually strips some binaries, to ensure the package still permits debugging via e.g. gdb/valgrind. This is the only way to get the debug info for *part* of a package, when we don't currently implement debug repositories...

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/glibc&id=3d33d5a31af9eb9125c65a1853f9373c3563d834#n165
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 29 April 2018, 14:05 GMT
This will not been needed for glibc the day Arch ships debug packages...

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