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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: Shared Libraries...almost there...
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[ Large shlib libraries ]

> > Look /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk and note the ld commands.  These are used
> > to 'strip' out un-necessary (And some necessary according to Bruce)
> 
> Bruce...are you out there? :)
> 
> Right now, I've left it 'unstripped'...what is necesary that stripping
> gets rid of?  debug code would be my first guess...

It's more of a judgement call, but it removes static symbols and other
such symbols which I believe Bruce believes should be exported.


Nate