`strip: X.so could not create temporary file to hold stripped copy: cause of error unknown`

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 22 2023, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 08:43:56PM +0000, Paul Naidoo wrote:
>> |strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5|
>> 
>> However executing the command returns the error: |strip:
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: could not create temporary file
>> to hold stripped copy: cause of error unknown|
>
> You don't have write access in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.

I think this will improve the error message:

diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c
index cf830442b3c..98c567bd955 100644
--- a/binutils/objcopy.c
+++ b/binutils/objcopy.c
@@ -4884,6 +4884,7 @@ strip_main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
       if (tmpname == NULL)
 	{
+	  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_system_call);
 	  bfd_nonfatal_message (argv[i], NULL, NULL,
 				_("could not create temporary file to hold stripped copy"));
 	  status = 1;
-- 
2.39.1

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