[Pkg-octave-devel] large .oct files with latest version in testing

[Michael Creel]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/06/08 11:53 +0200, Michael Creel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Thomas Weber <
> thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 10:57 +0200 schrieb Michael Creel:
> > I was getting stripped .oct files quite recently. PelicanHPC v1.5.1 is
> based
> > on Lenny (made using live-helper), and it has Octave v3.0.1. It was
> released
> > 20 May, using whatever was in Lenny at the time. I have already tried the
> > changes in your mpitb.diff, and I still get large oct files. I don't
> think
> > that the Makefile actually uses mkoctfile to compile, it uses it only to
> > read configurations (maybe I'm wrong about that). Thus, this change has
> no
> > effect on the .oct files that are produced.
>
> Your Makefile is a mess :),
> just like our debian/rules file for Octave. Anyway, it seems you are using
> several flags from mkoctfile, maybe one of them had the strip part in it?
>
> > When you say that this is an upstream isssue, do you know exactly what
> > change has been made?
>
> There hasn't been any change upstream. The default as shipped in Octave by
> octave.org is to not strip .oct files. The reason for that kind of policy
> (almost every project does it like that): it's simple to strip the files if
> needed and helpful if the debug symbols are there to start with.
>
> If you want to strip the files, something like the 'find' command I sent
> earlier should be fine. Just run it as part of the all: command or whatever
> the default is.
>
> I don't really see a problem here, having files not stripped is a sensible
> default.
>
>        Thomas
>
No problem for me either, I've learned how to strip the files now. Thanks,
M.
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