Re: stripping binaries

["Kervin L. Pierre" <kervin@blueprint-tech.com>]

I ended up putting a link called "strip" to /bin/true in a directory 
before the real strip in the path

From the configure script it looks like the STRIP env variable should 
be honoured but I set "STRIP=:", "STRIP=/bin/true" but the binaries are 
still stripped at install.

I think the problem is that the strip arguement "-s" for the install 
program is hard coded in all Makefile.in's.

eg from slapd's Makefile.in...

 $(LTINSTALL) $(INSTALLFLAGS) -s -m 755 \
                slapd$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)

if it was something like...

$(STRIP) slapd$(EXEEXT)
$(LTINSTALL) $(INSTALLFLAGS) -m 755 \
                slapd$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)

that would allow overriding the strip executable with something like 
/bin/true or something, since configure already looks for the STRIP env var.

--Kervin


Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > Kervin Pierre writes:
> >
> > > Is there a flag to not strip binaries during building?
> >
> > env LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure
>
>
> Oops, forget that.  I didn't notice the "not":-(
>
> Anyway, the binaries are not stripped during building, but during
> installation.  You can install non-stripped version by doing 'cp' by
> hand after 'make install'.  I wish there was a better way.