Re: make install-strip with binutils

[NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * NightStrike wrote on Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:33:17PM CEST:
>> I noticed that there is no install-strip target in the binutils
>> Makefile. ?How do you install stripped versions of the binutils
>> package? ?What's the official approved way to do this, ideally without
>> resorting to manually running strip?
>
> I don't think there is an official approved way yet.

Isn't install-strip a required make target for gnu programs?

> It should be
> possible to add forwarders to toplevel Makefile.tpl and Makefile.def,
> and add targets to the non-automake-governed sub directories of the
> combined GCC/src tree, but you'd need to take care to pass the right
> strip program (for host or for target, possibly the in-tree strip).

I.... have no idea how to do that :)


'strip /bin/*' it is, then :)