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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:20:55 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
Cc:        Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: build failures after stdlib update
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d1003211420j77b916cdt48de132ebe9a0b23@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> wrote:
> On 2010-03-21 14:08, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> CPUTYPE=3Dnative
>>>> CFLAGS=3D-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -s
>>>>
>>>> btw: what's the -s switch doing?
>>>
>>> It "silences" make. =A0See the man page. =A0It's useful because basical=
ly
>>> only
>>> errors are emitted.
>>
>> Oops. =A0That's wrong. =A0I got confused. =A0I'd like to know that mysel=
f, now
>> that I'm no longer confused :)
>
> From gcc(1):
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 -s =A0Remove all symbol table and relocation information from=
 the exe-
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 cutable.
>
> This is more or less the same as running strip(1) over the produced
> executables. =A0Usually one uses it for non-debug builds.

That seems a bit harsh (especially because that makes certain
libraries uses kind of moot, like *_p.a, right?).

Cheers,
-Garrett



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