From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport - avoid stripping binaries
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 21:55:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYbrzYIU5+xT+5pO@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYbrN5JEhJb6aITG@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Nov 6 21:53, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> - create binaries with debug info
> - create debug info files from the non-stripped binaries and copy
> them to usr/debug/...
sorry, usr/lib/debug/...
> - strip the binary and pack it into the base package "foo"
> - pack the debug info files into the debug package "foo-debug"
>
> So, a user of the package gets just the smaller stripped foo binary,
> while a developer can install the foo-debug package and actually
> debug the foo binary.
>
> > Is it a common practice for GNU/Linux distribution to strip binaries when
> > creating packages?
>
> Yes. Plus generating the debug info package.
Corinna
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-06 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-06 14:31 Federico Kircheis
2021-11-06 15:01 ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-06 17:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-06 19:29 ` Federico Kircheis
2021-11-06 20:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-06 20:55 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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