BUG: Binutils strip corrupts dll files when using cygwin 1.5.18 and latest snapshot (20051103)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:17:57PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote:
>After compiling a snapshot, I tried to strip the cygwin1.dll using  
>the binutils strip command.  After I did this I started seeing this  
>windows dialog box appear:
>
>"ls.exe - Bad Image

This is not a bug.  You can't strip the DLL as it is already stripped
as much as possible.  The debugging information is now in a different
file.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00277.html

cgf

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