while configure is run with --enable-debug=yes, something (portage?) runs strip between building and merging, so it's all stripped away: ... >>> Completed installing libsoup-2.2.94 into /var/tmp/portage/libsoup-2.2.94/im age/ man: strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.so.8.2.0 usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.a removing executable bit: /usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.la >>> Merging net-libs/libsoup-2.2.94 to / --- /var/ ... Following is emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1500MHz ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox severe sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ " PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri emboss encode fontconfig foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gtk gtk2 ipv6 jabber jpeg jpeg2k lcms libg++ libwww mad mbox mime mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd nptl objc objc-gc ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib png posix ppds pppd python readline reflection sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcl tcltk tetex theora tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode videos vorbis xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
FEATURES="nostrip"
