-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, hogendoorn r.a. wrote:
> While playing with flex 2.5.4, I discovered that libfl.a was stripped. > Consequently, linking fails because the symbol yywrap is not defined in > the library. You are right. I have uploaded flex-2.5.4-2 two hours ago :-) It should be in all the Debian mirrors in a few days. In the meantime, you can get that package from this site: ftp://ftp.unex.es/pub/linux/debian/flex/flex_2.5.4-2_i386.deb > I got the source of flex and rebuild my own copy of the debian package. > It turned out that debstd strips all libraries, except the ones ending > on _g.a. Why? Policy says to strip all libraries. However it does not specify exactly how this should be done. You may report that as a bug against debmake, if it is not already reported. strip -g on static libraries seems to work, so I have included a modified debstd inside the new Debian flex source package (I didin't want to rebuild without debstd just because it is not perfect :-). Libraries ending in _g.a are usually debug libraries, so you don't want to strip symbols in those libraries (or they would stop being debugging libraries!). Regards, Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, current Debian flex maintainer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBMyfhmSqK7IlOjMLFAQHsCwP9H+BcFDG4+f95OMGYKizYQmsq40NpvW6j DrC2xXCAEeE88W273XZmrWRkKwFsnqPxwu5KJdWIittWWBS5UxEEvqPaIjDM/DqF mhnlNjb1Kt5Ein0HXujzJwYFdbTubrLl475suofj/krB2wPUz94HJVK8JzdcHmFs z/gkvK+KWMM= =dbE2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
