Subject: Re: Shared libraries and symbols

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 22:03 PDT

From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
> Can we strip shared libraries?

Yes. There is a different symbol table for shared objects that you can
print with "nm --dynamic".

	Bruce

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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 14:46:24 +0200 (MET DST)

> print with "nm --dynamic".

So could we please add this in the guidelines? I didn't check the guidelines
on this but we should also ask the libraries (static and dynamic) to not
contain debugging symbols. If this is already noted should I report it as a
bug if I find some?

Michael

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