wtf ... Something strips installed binaries???

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:01:50AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> I installed a binary from an RPM last night.  Here's what I installed:
> 
> # rpm -qlvp ~rjones/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ocsigen-1.1.0-3.fc10.i386.rpm | grep /usr/bin
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root          2294198 Sep  1 23:32 /usr/bin/ocsigen
> 
> This morning:
> 
> # ll /usr/bin/ocsigen 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 298908 2008-09-01 23:32 /usr/bin/ocsigen
> 
> This stipped binary is broken -- these binaries must NEVER be stripped!

Why mustn't it be stripped ? If it genuinely needs the symbol data, then
adding the blacklist to prelink is reasonable. If it is merely that the
strip binary is doing something wrong, then a BZ against strip is needed
to get it fixed.

Daniel
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