Bug 252118

Summary:	x11-wm/aewm: pre-stripped files found
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Desktop WM Team (OBSOLETE) <desktop-wm+disabled>
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 22:03:08 UTC

x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found:
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/set-gnome-pda
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/aewm
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/aemenu-xaw
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/aepanel-xaw
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/aemenu-gtk
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/aepanel-gtk
x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7:20081221-034631.log:  * /var/tmp/portage/x11-wm/aewm-1.2.7/image/usr/bin/aesession

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 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-23 19:37:56 UTC

Does it take an year to get rid of the "install -s" call or is this package unmaintained?

Comment 2 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-27 16:55:00 UTC

Fixed in tree
+  27 May 2010; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> aewm-1.2.7.ebuild,
+  +files/aewm-1.2.7-ldflags.patch:
+  Respect user flags wrt bug 237698, do not pre-strip files wrt bug 252118.
+  Thanks coldwind and Diego for reporting.