Bug 765782

Summary: strip destroys static libraries
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andreas Schneider <asn>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Andreas Schneider 2011-12-09 12:11:48 UTC
Description of problem:

'strip -g libfoo.a' destroys the static libraries. Checking the symbols of libgssapi.a with 'nm -s' gives the output for one object file:

asn1_GSSAPIContextToken.o:
                 U _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
00000000000004ad T copy_GSSAPIContextToken
                 U copy_heim_any_set
00000000000001a3 T decode_GSSAPIContextToken
                 U decode_heim_any_set
                 U der_copy_oid
                 U der_free_oid
                 U der_get_oid
                 U der_length_len
                 U der_length_oid
                 U der_match_tag_and_length
                 U der_put_length_and_tag
                 U der_put_oid
0000000000000000 T encode_GSSAPIContextToken
                 U encode_heim_any_set
00000000000003e5 T free_GSSAPIContextToken
                 U free_heim_any_set
000000000000040f T length_GSSAPIContextToken
                 U length_heim_any_set

If I strip it with it with 'strip -g libgssapi.a'and check the static library with 'nm' I get:

nm: asn1_GSSAPIContextToken.o: Bad value

rpmbuild calls 'strip -g' so every package providing a static lib is broken.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build a static lib
2. nm -s libfoo.a
3. strip -g libfoo.a
4. nm -s libfoo.a

Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2011-12-12 16:02:47 UTC
Hi Andreas,

  I am unable to reproduce this problem.  Please could you upload a (unstripped) copy of libgssapi.a for me to try ?  (The libgssapi rpm has been replaced by libgssglue, so I do not have a copy of my own to use).

Cheers
  Nick

Comment 3 Nick Clifton 2011-12-14 11:14:11 UTC
Hi Andreas,

  Thanks for the upload - I have now tracked down the problem.  It had been reported on the FSF binutils bug system, but the patch had not been imported into Fedora.  I have now fixed this, and if you would like to try out the new binutils-2.21.53.0.1-6.fc16 rpm you should find that strip no longer corrupts libraries.

Cheers
  Nick

Comment 4 Andreas Schneider 2011-12-15 09:52:31 UTC
I've tested it and it works for me. You should make sure that this is pushed to the build environments (koji, mock) too.

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