On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:43:55 -0500 Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org>
wrote:
| On Nov 27 14:23, Sorav Bansal wrote:
| >  I have a query regarding the "emerge" utility: it uses the strip
| >  command
| > to strip all debugging and symbol table information from the
| > executables. I want to disable this. I want to retain all debugging
| > symbols. How can I do that?
| 
| Assuming you use portage for installation of your programs, set add
| "nostrip" to your FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf .

...which, sadly, usually won't work since most autotools-based things
call install -s rather than install.

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