On 21.04.23 18:41, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 20.04.23 17:33, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Peter, it's unlikely given the timeframe, but do you happen to
>> remember why
>> you specified -x when stripping static libs? This seems to be all the
>> way back
>> from
>>
>> commit 563673e15db995b6f531b44be7bb162330ac157a
>> Author: Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net>
>> Date: 2002-04-10 16:45:25 +0000
>>
>> Add make install-strip target.
>>
>>
>> Afaict the only safe thing to use when stripping static libs is
>> -g/--strip-debug.
>
> I suspect this was copied from GNU Libtool. Libtool still has that but
> later changed the stripping of static libraries on darwin to "strip -S".
> Maybe should adopt that.
Here is the current logic in GNU Libtool:
https://github.com/autotools-mirror/libtool/blob/master/m4/libtool.m4#L2214
