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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:43:29 -0700
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: Re: BUG: Binutils strip corrupts dll files when using cygwin 1.5.18  and latest snapshot (20051103)
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According to Christopher Faylor on 11/3/2005 6:51 PM:
> 
> This is not a bug.  You can't strip the DLL as it is already stripped
> as much as possible.  The debugging information is now in a different
> file.

Then I would argue that strip should be a no-op and leave the size of
cygwin1.dll unchanged, rather than stripping out whatever was essential
that made the dll invalid.  It is not a bug in your philosophy of shipping
cygwin1.dll already stripped, but it IS annoying that binutils can't
recognize that fact and instead corrupts the file.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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