[oe] build inconsistency (strip)

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still the following is strange to me:
> I would expect
> /home/frans/oe/tmp_angstrom/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/install -s to
> call the target strip (or maybe ignore the strip command).
>
No, AFAIK install is unaware of the preferred strip executable.

Some target architecture binaries can be stripped with the host strip
command (for example, this seems to work for x86->arm, but NOT
x86->powerpc).

One proposal (from me) was to patch core-utils to use env. var. STRIP
instead of strip.

However, the OpenEmbedded solution is to patch the Makefiles to remove
the "-s" flag from the install targets.
This approach is best as the stripping is then done neatly during
packaging the debug strip-off.


Regards,
-- 
Leon