Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Afaict the only safe thing to use when stripping static libs is
> -g/--strip-debug.
The previous complaint about this [1] suggested we use --strip-unneeded
for all cases with GNU strip, same as we've long done for shared libs.
It's an easy enough change, but I wonder if anyone will complain.
regards, tom lane
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/17898-5308d09543463266%40postgresql.org