When trying to make an ebuild for vm ware I noticed core files were appearing in the bin directory. Looking into it I found strip was segfaulting as it tryied to strip the vmware executable. I think I could work around this by playing with file perms and using the pkg_preinst command but that's kinda ugly. It'd be nice to have some way to say don't strip me.
I'm not sure if there are. Earlier if you set DEBUG="yes" it didn't strip. but that is not on a per-package level.
The fix is to make sure that all our "do" commands and "prep" commands respect "DEBUG". I think this may be the case, but I'm assigning to Bevin to check for sure. In the meantime, try setting DEBUG="yes" and see if that fixes it and if so post a follow-up to this bug.
Good news: putting `export DEBUG="yes"` in you ebuild will skip the strip process. I was a little worried that exporting DEBUG would cause any packages merged with the one I didn't want stripped would not get striped either but it seems DEBUG doesn't leak into other ebuild scripts. Note: Simply putting DEBUG="yes" with out the export did not prevent stripping.
