[Nix-dev] sbcl image executables and patch-elf

[Eike]

Hi Tomas,

thank you for the explanation. I'm not familiar at all with the C world
as you just saw.

Regards
Eike

Tomas Hlavaty <tomas.hlavaty at knowledgetools.de> writes:

> Hi Eike,
>
>> I just found out that this is the strip utility from binutils and I'm
>> wondering how it can do such a harm…
>
> strip does what it is supposed to do.  In the usual C world, executables
> can contain lots of other information, e.g. debugging symbols etc.
> strip removes this additional information while it is not usually needed
> on production systems and take significant amount of space.
>
> However, you tried to create a self-contained sbcl executable
> application in one executable file.  This means that the lisp image
> (usually a separate file) is concatenated to the executable file.  If
> you run strip on this executable, it will remove the lisp image,
> breaking the application.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomas