[oe] Revert "package bbclass: strip static libs as well"
Holger Hans Peter Freyther
holger+oe at freyther.de
Fri Oct 23 07:30:00 UTC 2009
On Friday 23 October 2009 09:23:03 Koen Kooi wrote:
> > I don't think we need to strip .a files as they will not end on the
> > device
>
> They do actually
>
> > and people will link their binaries to them and we will strip the
> > binaries.
>
> There was a discussion about that and I didn't see people objection, the
> only point of contention was where to package the debug symbols. How do
> you propropose to solve the problem that the .a files are huge?
> Also, you don't mention any problems, you only say "I [..] think", which
> usually isn't a good enough reason to revert stuff :)
The above commits cause build problems and break the "toolchain" (native,
cross-sdk) at runtime. The toolchain is broken as all symbols are stripped out
of the libc_nonshared.a.
Why do you need .a files on the device? Is this normal operation or only when
installing -dev packages?
z.
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