GNU bug report logs - #2507
23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:05:07 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 2507 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 2507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2507: 23.0.91;	Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:14:16 +0200

> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:01:07 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 
> 
>   strip emacs.exe
>   emacs -Q
> 
> results in the OS popping an error dialog saying:
> 
>   emacs.exe is not a valid Win32 application

More info: building Emacs like this:

    make USER_LDFLAGS=-s install

produces an already stripped emacs.exe that is 8548352 bytes large.
So this should serve as a stop-gap in case we cannot easily find a
cure for running `strip' on the dumped Emacs.

One further idea to ponder is that the fact we now compile with
DWARF-2 debug info is the reason for the problem with stripping the
dumped Emacs.  Can someone please try rebuilding with "-gstabs"
instead of "-gdwarf-2 -g3", and see if that produces an emacs.exe
which can be safely stripped?
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 355 days ago.

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