Bug 251888

Summary:	dev-haskell/hdoc: pre-stripped files found
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Haskell Language team <haskell>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	239866

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-21 16:02:10 UTC

dev-haskell/hdoc-0.8.3:20081213-031033.log:  * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found:
dev-haskell/hdoc-0.8.3:20081213-031033.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/dev-haskell/hdoc-0.8.3/image/usr/bin/hdoc

Portage warns about pre-stripped files being installed into the image directory; this is a bad thing since it makes Portage's splitdebug feature useless, and it stops the users and the developers from looking into backtraces with full debug information available.

For the developers going to look into it, what you have to look out for, to
find what is stripping the files, is one of these conditions:

- explicit "strip" command run on the produced files;
- "install -s" command to install the binary files;
- "-Wl,-s" flag passed during linking

Remove the "strip" commands, remove the "-s" option at install, and remove
"-Wl,-s" and the problem should be gone.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-12 09:52:07 UTC

Pushed the patch ripping out explicit strip call from makefile.

Thank you, Diego!

Comment 2 Lennart Kolmodin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-21 20:56:02 UTC

Just like with bug #255822, I think hdoc has seen its best days.

The homepage doesn't exist any more, and I can't find any documentation upstream about the project. Also, we have no packages that depend on hdoc.

I suggest we remove it.