From owner-octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Apr 27 20:18:33 1997
Subject: Stripping patch for mkoctfile and Debian releases
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at rosebud dot sps dot queensu dot ca>
To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:16:43 -0400 (EDT)


A few weeks, I mentioned that an option for stripping the .oct file generated
by 'mkoctfile' would be nice to have. I wrote a tentative version of such a
patch, see below. It would be good if configure.in could also check for the
existence of a strip binary.

As it happens, this patch is part of the new version of Octave 2.0.5 that I
just uploaded for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. In case you are running
Debian, you might want to use it. I enclose the package announcement below.
If you don't know what I am talking about, see http://www.debian.org for more.

--------------------- patch for mkoctfile.in --------------------------------
--- mkoctfile.in~	Thu Feb 13 17:26:21 1997
+++ mkoctfile.in	Sun Apr 27 19:02:17 1997
 at @ -5,13 +5,22 @@
 
 set -e
 
+STRIP=0
+if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
+    if [ "$1" = "-s" ]
+    then
+	STRIP=1
+	shift
+    fi
+fi
+
 if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
   srcfile="$1"
   basnm=`echo $srcfile | sed 's,\.cc$,,'`
   objfile=$basnm.o
   octfile=$basnm.oct
 else
-  echo "usage: mkoctfile file.cc" 1>&2
+  echo "usage: mkoctfile [-s] file.cc" 1>&2
   exit 1
 fi
 
 at @ -54,3 +63,8 @@
 echo "making $octfile from $objfile"
 
 $CXX -shared -o $octfile $objfile $LIBFLAGS $RLD_FLAG $OCTAVE_LIBS $FLIBS $LEXLIB $TERMLIBS $LIBS
+
+if [ $STRIP -eq 1 ]; then
+    echo "stripping $octfile"
+    strip $octfile
+fi
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------- Announcement of the octave-2.0.5-3 package ----------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Format: 1.5
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:06:03 -0400
Source: octave
Binary: octave-doc octave-staticlibs octave
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 2.0.5-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
Description: 
 octave     - The GNU Octave language for numerical computations
 octave-doc - Postscript documentation on the GNU Octave language
 octave-staticlibs - Static libraries for the GNU Octave language
Changes: 
 octave (2.0.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * added creation of /usr/local/share/octave/site-m in the postinst if
     /usr/local filesystem is writable and removal of the directories
     /usr/local/share/octave/site-m and /usr/local/share/octave/site-m in
     the prerm if they are empty to reflect Debian policy on /usr/local/
   * moved configuration file /usr/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
     into /etc/octave.conf and provided a softlink from the default location
   * added LOADPATH setting to octave.conf aka octaverc for the local tree
   * made /etc/octave.conf a conffile
   * moved static libs into a seperate package (which is not needed for
     normal use of octave) --- this saves 4.4 MB of diskspace
   * patched mkoctfile.in to add a flag for stripping to /usr/bin/mkoctfile
   * changed configure to explicit setting of host architecture
Files: 
 3faeefe226c392efa1b54cfc3fd97040 708 math optional octave_2.0.5-3.dsc
 b43469bf8e9336d6338689e96bc4536e 5761 math optional octave_2.0.5-3.diff.gz
 b7e881b613b90b9609f1b4cd3968c95a 519752 math optional octave-doc_2.0.5-3_all.deb
 b32788ab06f963af71f3c50735ecddc7 1669242 math optional octave_2.0.5-3_i386.deb
 c0755e11ec81e9dc531d13a5e9644cdf 1226338 math optional octave-staticlibs_2.0.5-3_i386.deb

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    Dirk Eddelbuettel     edd at rosebud dot sps dot queensu dot ca     edd@debian.org