Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
reopen 23618 reassign 23618 binutils quit Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff > format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library > using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I will repeat what I said: debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the remaining 5%, then

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
repoen 23618 stop I'm sorry, but saying that I should not use debmake because it is buggy does not fix the bug and the bug should not be closed! Corrupting files in packages that I am building is very serious indeed, and if I didn't set the severity to important or greater, I probably should have