From ecu@shiva.bouglou.net Fri Oct 25 08:58:26 2002 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4803337B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.bouglou.net (shiva.bouglou.net [62.4.22.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9760E43E4A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ecu@shiva.bouglou.net) Received: by shiva.bouglou.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E22BC15435; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:58:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20021025155823.E22BC15435@shiva.bouglou.net> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:58:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Nicolas Jombart Reply-To: Nicolas Jombart To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Porter's handbook and binary stripping X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 X-GNATS-Notify: >Number: 44465 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Porter's handbook and binary stripping >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: adamw >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 25 09:00:06 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: Fri Oct 25 14:12:13 PDT 2002 >Last-Modified: Fri Oct 25 14:12:13 PDT 2002 >Originator: Nicolas Jombart >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD shiva.bouglou.net 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #11: Mon Sep 16 12:03:20 CEST 2002 ecu@shiva.bouglou.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHIVA i386 >Description: Porter's handbook says in 15.1 "do strip binaries", but INSTALL_PROGRAM will do it in any case via install(1). You can also see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42981 >How-To-Repeat: n/a >Fix: The proposed fix only remove this part, but some may prefer a quick note that says binaries are stripped on install. --- porters-hb.txt begins here --- ? docbook.css Index: book.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.248 diff -u -r1.248 book.sgml --- book.sgml 2002/10/08 04:52:43 1.248 +++ book.sgml 2002/10/25 15:42:03 @@ -3938,22 +3938,6 @@ doing. - Strip Binaries - - Do strip binaries. If the original source already strips the - binaries, fine; otherwise you should add a - post-install rule to it yourself. Here is an - example: - - post-install: - strip ${PREFIX}/bin/xdl - - Use the &man.file.1; command on the installed executable to - check whether the binary is stripped or not. If it does not say - not stripped, it is stripped. - - - INSTALL_* macros Do use the macros provided in bsd.port.mk --- porters-hb.txt ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->adamw Responsible-Changed-By: ceri Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Oct 25 09:04:54 PDT 2002 Responsible-Changed-Why: adamw is already working on this. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=44465 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: adamw State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 25 14:09:25 PDT 2002 State-Changed-Why: Instead of just whacking the entire section, I updated the information to a more useful state. I'm not sure why I'd want to strip something without using the INSTALL_PROGRAM macro, but just in case I ever do, information on how to do it is available. ::) Thanks for submitting this PR, and bringing the issue to my attention in the first place! -Adam http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=44465 >Unformatted: