<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/89700>89700</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            llvm-split replaces symbolic links with the referenced file.
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            new issue
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          ian-collins-ctct
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    We had `ls -l ../built/third_party_libs/libfastrtps.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian sudo      18 Mar  1 21:12 ../built/third_party_libs/r2/libfastrtps.so -> libfastrtps.so.2.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian sudo      20 Mar  1 21:12 ../built/third_party_libs/r2/libfastrtps.so.2.6 -> libfastrtps.so.2.6.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian sudo 5926028 Apr 23 14:00 ../built/third_party_libs/r2/libfastrtps.so.2.6.6`

After running llvm-strip-16 on "*.so" this changed to `-rw-r--r-- 1 ian sudo 5926028 Apr 23 13:58 ../built/third_party_libs/r2/libfastrtps.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian sudo 20 Mar  1 21:12 ../built/third_party_libs/r2/libfastrtps.so.2.6 -> libfastrtps.so.2.6.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian sudo 5926028 Apr 23 13:58 ../built/third_party_libs/r2/libfastrtps.so.2.6.6`

The build previously use gnu spit which did not mess with the symlinks.
</pre>
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