build failures after stdlib update
Garrett Cooper
yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 21:20:56 UTC 2010
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Dimitry Andric <dimitry at andric.com> wrote:
> On 2010-03-21 14:08, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> CPUTYPE=native
>>>> CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -s
>>>>
>>>> btw: what's the -s switch doing?
>>>
>>> It "silences" make. See the man page. It's useful because basically
>>> only
>>> errors are emitted.
>>
>> Oops. That's wrong. I got confused. I'd like to know that myself, now
>> that I'm no longer confused :)
>
> From gcc(1):
>
> -s Remove all symbol table and relocation information from the exe-
> cutable.
>
> This is more or less the same as running strip(1) over the produced
> executables. Usually one uses it for non-debug builds.
That seems a bit harsh (especially because that makes certain
libraries uses kind of moot, like *_p.a, right?).
Cheers,
-Garrett
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