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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:54:32 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: INSTALL_TARGET=install-strip runs into "permission denied"
Message-ID:  <20170425205432.4eb2b02a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1704242101550.2928@anthias.pfeifer.com>
References:  <alpine.LSU.2.11.1501181210570.2527@tuna.site> <20150118130127.71b8cba9@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <alpine.LSU.2.11.1501182140060.2527@tuna.site> <20150119092404.0a448f9f@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <alpine.LSU.2.21.1704222137060.2928@anthias.pfeifer.com> <20170423123757.5f111189@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <alpine.LSU.2.21.1704242101550.2928@anthias.pfeifer.com>

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On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:03:22 +0200 (CEST) Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>>> [ https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10357 ]  
>> Yes, but in my opinion we should stop relying on upstream build systems
>> to get stripping right and let bsd.port.mk strip ELF files after staging.
>> It's less work for maintainers.  Then instead of stripping, bsd.port.mk
>> could also extract debug symbols into separate files and put them into a
>> debug subpackage.  
> 
> Yes, that sounds a lot more reliable and maintainable (and overall
> less work compared to patching hundreds of ports).
> 
> Until something like this is in place, should we ignore those
> complaints from the QA framework or patch individual ports?

That's not my decision to make.  It's not that important for gcc I think.
The only reason to strip files is to make them a bit smaller and gcc is
not going to be installed on space constrained systems where this matters.



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