Add strip -s after gcc compilation to remove symbol table and relocation info.
Reduces binary size and prevents symbol-level reverse engineering of EL runtime internals.
elb overwrites dist/soul.c with a fresh (non-inlined) compilation before
its link step fails, discarding the patched self-contained version.
Save the repo copy before elb and restore it after so the compiler always
gets the complete translation unit with all patches applied.
elb generates a dist/soul.c with all El modules inlined. Linking
dist/soul.c alone is sufficient and is exactly what the local mac
build does. Including other dist/*.c files causes two failures:
1. dist/chat.c has a capability-violation #error that fires when the
file is compiled as a utility module (outside the cgi entrypoint).
2. --allow-multiple-definition masked other issues silently.
Drop OTHER_C, drop --allow-multiple-definition, drop the now-unused
elp-c-decls.h generation step. The cc command now matches the proven
local build exactly.
Linux elb generates individual .c files; soul.c does not contain merged
imports (unlike macOS elb which produces a unified file). Re-link all
dist/*.c manually with soul.c listed first so its real main() wins, and
--allow-multiple-definition to silence GNU ld's duplicate symbol errors.
All duplicates are identical (same El source, different compile units).
The El compiler inlines imported modules into each module's .c file.
On macOS, ld64 accepts duplicate strong symbols silently. On Linux,
GNU ld rejects them. soul.c is a fully merged file — every function
from every imported module is present in it — so linking only soul.c
against el_runtime.c produces a correct binary with no duplicates.
Downloads El SDK from Artifact Registry, generates ELP declarations header,
builds the neuron soul binary with elb, smoke-tests it, and publishes to
foundation-dev on push to main.
will.anderson