gsoap static library with important undefined references (stripping problems)

Binary package hint: gsoap

I'm developing a small application with the gsoap and was getting several problems with undefined references when linking against the gsoap library (/usr/lib/libgsoap.a). A few minutes ago, I tried to build gsoap myself and try-out the sample applications available with the source code (soapcpp2/samples). I used the 'calc' example. So far, so good: the application compiled just fine. The sample 'calc' application links against the 'libgsoap.a' of the package (not the global one, installed with Ubuntu). Then I took a look at the local libgsoap.a and the Ubuntu's one: the file size difference was great, almost 2x. So I imagined it could be a striping problem. I run a simple 'strip' into the local libgsoap.a and, surprise surprise, got the same errors I had with the Ubuntu's libgsoap.a. Rebuilding the libgsoap.a and running just a 'strip -d' (debug information) run just fine. So, I can just imagine that, somehow, Ubuntu is striping more than debug information from the static library.

I looked at the debian/rules and found a dh_strip instruction. However, as far as I can tell, it just strips debug information from static libraries. I'm missing something? Is stripping taking place at somewhere else too? A solution would disable stripping alltogether, but, if we could just discover why more than just debug is getting removed, it'd be nice.