ct-ng-1.8.0: problem building sstrip on MacOSX 10.6 host

[Yann E. MORIN]

Andy, All,

On Thursday 05 August 2010 08:43:04 Andy Gibbs wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:46 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Just disable sstrip, it's not really needed most of the time (and is 
> > broken
> > on a few archs, eg. PPC). I'm thinking about just removing it in the next
> > release.
> Either way, I think in your case, the standard strip should be perfectly 
> adequate.  My understanding is that sstrip was created with embedded systems 
> in mind where storage space is at a premium so it strips out further 
> "unnecessary" sections that the standard strip does not.  However, if you 
> read through the source code for sstrip, it details a number of caveats - 
> i.e. it is a very specific tool to a specific task, and is not 100% reliable 
> outside that box.  Therefore where storage space is not a premium, then I 
> think it much better (and safer!) to use the standard strip instead.
> 
> (This is just my opinion!)

And I agree! :-)

I'll be queing a patch to make sstrip non-default. It can happen that
it is still needed in some cases, but it seems the majority is not
using it, and it is failing quite often.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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