Makepkg hangs at "Stripping debugging symbols from binaries [...]"

Question

Hi,
I made a PKGBUILD for the io (programming language) virtual machine but makepkg hangs at:
==> Tidying install...
-> Removing info/doc files...
-> Compressing man pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
The PKGBUILD:
# Contributor:
pkgname=io
pkgver=2008.03.30
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Virtual machine for Io, a small, prototype-based programming language"
url="http://www.iolanguage.com/"
arch=(i686)
license=()
depends=()
makedepends=()
options=()
conflicts=()
source=(http://github.com/tarballs/stevedekorte-io-4debb4b25740b8dd46ad16f43f04f0fc5b4a23e1.tar.gz)
md5sums=('')
build() {
mv $startdir/src/stevedekorte-io-4debb4b25740b8dd46ad16f43f04f0fc5b4a23e1 $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
make vm || return 1
make INSTALL_PREFIX=${startdir}/pkg/usr install
rm -rf ${startdir}/src/io-2008.03.30/_build
has anyone a hint where to start searching for a solution? Or can anyone explain to me what "Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries ..." in this context means?
Thanks,
hightower

Answer 1

Ok,
First of all thanks to shining.
I found the reason. The responsible piece of code:
for file in $(find {,usr/{,local/},opt/*/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f 2> /dev/null || true); do
case "$(file -biz "$file")" in
*application/x-sharedlib*) # Libraries
/usr/bin/strip --strip-debug "$file";;
*application/x-executable*) # Binaries
/usr/bin/strip "$file";;
esac
done
As some filenames contain spaces they are split in the wrong way so the "filename storage" contains wrong file names. As several files contain " - " the script tries to read from stdin which causes the hang (I suppose). I'll file a bug report.
hightower
Last edited by hightower (2008-04-26 21:54:48)