[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] build: don't strip binaries during compilation

[James Almer]

On 10/1/2017 8:18 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2017-10-02 0:55 GMT+02:00 James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>:
>> Do it during install instead, like with the libraries.
>>
>> There's no benefit making a stripped copy of the CLI tools in the
>> build folder. Doing it during install saves build time and storage
>> space.
> 
> This makes it much more difficult to request backtrace etc.
> from users.

How so? The installed binaries are always stripped (unless configured
with --disable-stripping), with or without this patch.

> 
> A similar patch was rejected a few years ago.
> 
> Carl Eugen
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