Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile

[Riku Voipio]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:16:38PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> I guess this boils down to "It's how its been done since the early
> 1980's at least" but I do know times change.

Maybe you have heard about the new kids called GNU?

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Standard-Targets

I don't think qemu is following GNU guidelines, but these are
pretty much the makefile targets *most* users expect these days.

> : Unconditional stripping is bad, mmkay?

> Of course.  That's why most systems have a flag called STRIP that's
> passed to install so that users can turn it on or off, but it defaults
> to on.

Personally, this solution would work for me. Not that my random
sampling from the debian archive found any application that uses
STRIP in that way - when STRIP was defined, it is usually "strip".
Including qemu btw...

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