From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: linking stripped object files
3 Mar 1997 10:37:10 -0800
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Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> 
> Hmm, seems like it's different on different machines (?).

Long ago, in a land far away, there was BSD and SysV ...
Yes, systems differ.  Some use -r to preserve relocation info,
some are smart enough to always preserve relocation info on
non-executables.  The GNU tools are in a bit of a world of their own;
TFM sez to use strip --strip-unneeded

It doesn't seem to work, though.

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