Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:33:23 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org Cc: obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in linux_base-8 Message-ID: <20050225113323.eywf0id2h44084wc@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <17eee29a1434ef542d68e96f28dc4341@lake.com> References: <20050224020611.GA38712@dragon.nuxi.com> <17eee29a1434ef542d68e96f28dc4341@lake.com>
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Andrew Reilly <a.reilly@lake.com> wrote:
> On 24/02/2005, at 13:06, David O'Brien wrote:
>
>> We're missing strip(1), which is used in the Acroread install:
>>
>> $ grep strip /usr/ports/print/acroread/Makefile
>> -@${LINUXBASE}/usr/bin/strip
>> ${PREFIX}/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
>>
>> Anyone know which RPM we need to add to linux_base-8 to get strip(1)?
>
> I don't know the answer to this question, but suspect that it might
> be somewhere in a compiler tool-set, that one wouldn't necessarily
When you're right: we (specially I as the maintainer of icc) don't want to
install linux compiler tools by default.
> want to have to install as a prerequisite for installing pre-compiled
> Acroread. I've just looked at the Makefile: what does this line buy
> us? Wouldn't an appropriate fix for a failing acroread port build be
> to simply remove the call to LINUXBASE...strip altogether?
A "fix" for this issue is to do nothing. The quoted line has a '-' in front
if it, this means that a failure of this command isn't considered an error.
Whoever put this line in was probably aware of the problem at hand.
I think the more appropriate question is: what's the result of this operation
(a smaller executable), and what do we gain by it (with todays harddisk
sizes: nearly nothing).
Bye,
Alexander.
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