Bug 191112 – util-linux-2.12r-r7 strips binaries during linking unless LDFLAGS is set

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Andrew Ross (RETIRED) 2007-09-03 00:41:25 UTC]

The configure file in util-linux-2.12r-r7 contains the following 2 lines:

LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS-"-s"}
echo LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS >> make_include

which cause LDFLAGS to include "-s" (strip binaries during linking) unless LDFLAGS is already set.

With binaries stripped during linking, splitdebug and nostrip don't work as expected - compare the output of "equery files util-linux | fgrep debug" when util-linux is installed with LDFLAGS set and unset and you get:

--- ldflags-unset       2007-09-03 10:39:02.000000000 +1000
+++ ldflags-set 2007-09-03 10:38:20.000000000 +1000
@@ -1,6 +1,66 @@
 /usr/lib/debug
+/usr/lib/debug/bin
+/usr/lib/debug/bin/arch.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/bin/dmesg.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/bin/more.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/bin/mount.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/bin/umount.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/agetty.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/blockdev.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/cfdisk.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/ctrlaltdel.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/elvtune.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/fdisk.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/fsck.cramfs.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/fsck.minix.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/hwclock.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/losetup.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.bfs.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.cramfs.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.minix.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkswap.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/pivot_root.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/sfdisk.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/sbin/swapon.debug
 /usr/lib/debug/usr
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cal.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/col.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/colcrt.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/colrm.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/column.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cytune.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ddate.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/fdformat.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/flock.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/getopt.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/hexdump.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ipcrm.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ipcs.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/isosize.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/line.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/logger.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/look.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/mcookie.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/namei.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pg.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/raw.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/rename.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/renice.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/rev.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/script.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/setfdprm.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/setsid.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/setterm.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/tailf.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ul.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/whereis.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/write.debug
 /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin
 /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/addpart.debug
 /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/delpart.debug
 /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/partx.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/readprofile.debug
+/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/tunelp.debug


Portage 2.1.2.12 (hardened/amd64, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.18-hardened-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-hardened-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:20:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs cvs distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/gentoo/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/aross"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 caps cracklib crypt hardened justify midi ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pic python readline sasl ssl symlink test unicode urandom xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-09-03 15:22:03 UTC]

fixed in cvs, no rev bump