Re: LLVM strip -x fails

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.