Bug 274323 – x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox: pre-stripped files found

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-06-16 12:00:23 UTC]

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.

For what concerns pre-built packages, you should set the QA_PRESTRIPPED variable in the ebuild with the list of known pre-stripped objects in the package.

Thanks,
Diego

[Comment 1 Maciej Mrozowski 2009-07-17 21:46:43 UTC]

Created attachment 198362 [details, diff]
nostrip patch

Applies to xf86-{input,video}-virtualbox-3.0.2

[Comment 2 Maciej Mrozowski 2009-07-17 21:50:32 UTC]

Created attachment 198363 [details, diff]
fixed nostrip patch

[Comment 3 Maciej Mrozowski 2009-07-17 22:39:29 UTC]

Created attachment 198366 [details, diff]
nostrip patch

Applies to xf86-{input,video}-virtualbox-2.2.4

[Comment 4 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-09-10 16:46:02 UTC]

This bug should be closed since this release is 
not available in portage (see bug #260331).

i will fix this both for:
x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.0.4
and
x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.0.6

thanks for the patch

[Comment 5 Patrick Lauer 2009-09-12 12:16:52 UTC]

Indeed.