build failures after stdlib update

Dimitry Andric dimitry at andric.com
Sun Mar 21 15:35:44 UTC 2010


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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