cygport - avoid stripping binaries

[Federico Kircheis]

On 06/11/2021 18.30, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Nov  6 15:31, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
>> it seems that cygport always strip binaries, but I have one program that
>> when stripped does not work correctly.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what program is that?  And why does it require the
> symbols to be present in the executable?
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

Hi Corinna,

it's pari-gp the program I'm having trouble packaging.

If I compile it manually, without cygport, then I'm able to execute it.
If I use cygport, then the program misbehaves.

I've noticed that cygport strips the binaries, so I thought that could 
be the issue.


Also setting


RESTRICT="strip" and STRIP=/usr/bin/true


seems to strip some information compared to the manually built binary.

Best

Federico


PS:
Why does cygport strip binaries by default?
Doesn't it generally makes harder to debug issues?
If stripping removes unused data I would actually expect the compiler to 
not generate it, and if the data is used....

Is it a common practice for GNU/Linux distribution to strip binaries 
when creating packages?
-------------- next part --------------
# pari.cygport
NAME="pari"
VERSION=2.13.3
RELEASE=1
SUMMARY="add summary"
DESCRIPTION="add description"
CATEGORY="Mail" #FIXME, find category

HOMEPAGE="https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr"
SRC_URI="https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/pari-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
SRC_DIR="pari-${VERSION}"



# for documentation needs latex (pdflatex for creating pdf)
BUILD_REQUIRES="libncurses-devel libreadline-devel libgmp-devel"
REQUIRES="libreadline libgmp10"

PKG_NAMES="pari"

src_compile() {
	lndirs
	cd ${B}
	sh ./Configure \
	  --prefix=/usr
	cygmake gp
}

src_install() {
	cd ${B}
	cyginstall
}

src_test() {
	cygmake bench
}