Bug#913946: llvm*-dbgsym not built, lots of 'strip: [something].cpp.o: failed to find link section for section N' errors

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello Rebecca,

Le 17/11/2018 à 13:43, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> 
> Le 17/11/2018 à 12:06, Rebecca N. Palmer a écrit :
>> Source: llvm-toolchain-7
>> Version: 1:7.0.1~+rc2-3
>>
>> LLVM 7 no longer builds any debug symbol packages, and at the point in the build log where it attempts to do so, there are >1000 messages of the form
>>
>>     strip --strip-debug --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --enable-deterministic-archives debian/liblld-7/usr/lib/llvm-7/lib/liblldWasm.a
>> strip: debian/liblld-7/usr/lib/llvm-7/lib/stLkO94N/Driver.cpp.o: failed to find link section for section 322
>> strip: debian/liblld-7/usr/lib/llvm-7/lib/stLkO94N/Driver.cpp.o: failed to find link section for section 322
>> strip: debian/liblld-7/usr/lib/llvm-7/lib/stLkO94N/InputChunks.cpp.o: failed to find link section for section 71
>> strip: debian/liblld-7/usr/lib/llvm-7/lib/stLkO94N/InputChunks.cpp.o: failed to find link section for section 71
>>
>> For most of LLVM's binaries, both of these first happened in 7-9~exp1, but as the changes from 7-8 to 7-9~exp1 are not obviously relevant, the cause might be outside LLVM itself.
>>
> I guess this is caused by the move to a stage2 build. Maybe clang generates .o files which make strip sad?!
> 
> Some help with that stuff would be appreciated :)
> 
>
 > override_dh_strip:
 >	ln -s [just built]/llvm-strip [somewhere]/strip
 > 	PATH=[somewhere]:$$PATH dh_strip

You rock! it worked!
I fixed it in 6bcd0a96b2b95d2e85fdf9d6c2e4c817624e1b36


Thanks!

S