From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Using strip --strip-debug on libraries
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:45:55 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> appears to be discarded. So, when the library is stripped of debug info,
>> only one init.o survives, leading to unresolved symbols when you link
>> against it.
>
>Hmm, this looks like a bug, then.
>
>Mark, do you have any ideas?  Should Rich report this to the binutils
>mailing list?

I'm not sure if it's a bug or not. It's not intuitive that 'strip --strip-debug'
decide to take out duplicate files. I think he should report it (to
binutils AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com) and see what the maintainers have to say about it.

Mark

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