Stripping .so

["Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>]

I don't think you should strip .so's as part of build process.
On gentoo it is generally done by portage itself - there is
option to GNU strip "--strip-unneeded" that will strip only things
that are safe to get rid of (like info sections, debug sections, and
non-exported symbols). Just doing plain strip on .so will kill it most
likely, and I'm not sure all unices have strip that supports 
--strip-unneeded
option (I'll have to test IRIX one of these days ;-)

If you really want to, test for --strip-unneeded option as part of 
configure,
and call it if its available for non --enable-debug builds.

But again, in general, let the packager handle that - i.e. for you, 
since you
are the packager, write yourself a ascript that will call configure make 
strip make install,
for Gentoo portage does it automatically, for redhat, devs decide if 
they want to do that,
i.e. for non *-devel.rpm packages.

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