Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:35:13 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: build failures after stdlib update Message-ID: <4BA63CB1.3000201@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <20100321140804.48cd1876@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <201003211232.35497.ken@mthelicon.com> <permail-20100321124352f7e55a9d0000754e-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <20100321140304.37618e59@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20100321140804.48cd1876@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On 2010-03-21 14:08, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>> CPUTYPE=native
>>> CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -s
>>>
>>> btw: what's the -s switch doing?
>>
>> It "silences" make. See the man page. It's useful because basically only
>> errors are emitted.
>
> Oops. That's wrong. I got confused. I'd like to know that myself, now
> that I'm no longer confused :)
From gcc(1):
-s Remove all symbol table and relocation information from the exe-
cutable.
This is more or less the same as running strip(1) over the produced
executables. Usually one uses it for non-debug builds.
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