[Wheel-builders] [Distutils][ANN] Python 3.7 now available in the manylinux docker images

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,


On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 21/06/2018 19:18, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15/06/2018 23:42, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
> ..........
>>>
>>> looking in side the wheels it looks like the .so files have been slimmed.
>>> Does anyone know if that is just because they no longer include debugging
>>> information etc etc?
>>
>>
>> If you haven't built in a while, this could well be the result of
>> merging https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/pull/140 - which
>> introduced stripped Linux binaries.
>>
> thanks very much. Looking in configure_build.sh it seems I can get a
> debugging build by exporting STRIP_FLAGS='' or is there a another way?

Right - simplest would be to put STRIP_FLAGS=" " (notice space inside
quotes) in your `env_vars.sh` file, to disable the stripping.  This
gets sourced before `configure_build.sh`.

Cheers,

Matthew