Re: [Boost-build] Stripping in release variant

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Stripping in release variant
From: Juraj Ivančić (juraj.ivancic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-14 07:29:25

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Per earlier discussion, I've made Boost.Build not strip a binary in release variant.
> The primary motivation is that stripping a binary make it impossible to even get
> a backtrace, and no other tool does so. Now, one can explicitly use strip=on if desired.

Now that the new builtin feature (strip) is available, is there any
chance that msvc toolset also benefits from this? I'd really like BB
to be able to produce stripped PDBs (w. /PDBSTRIPPED linker option).