Bug 252098

Summary:	x11-misc/trayer: pre-stripped files found
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Dockapp Team <desktop-dock>
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, 414305

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-21 21:55:38 UTC

x11-misc/trayer-1.0:20081220-184745.log:  * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found:
x11-misc/trayer-1.0:20081220-184745.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/trayer-1.0/image/usr/bin/trayer

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 Kevin Pyle 2009-01-17 17:27:09 UTC

The Makefile includes this construct as part of the rule to build trayer:

ifeq (,$(DEVEL))
    strip $@
endif

Adding DEVEL=1 to the emake line in the Gentoo ebuild should suppress the unwanted strip call.

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-24 11:20:42 UTC

Actually, the whole rule can go away

Fixed