make install-strip with binutils

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sat Nov 20 00:24:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Now, as GCC build maintainer, it seems most of this patch is free to
> proceed on (still, I'd welcome any review!), and the src bits are
> trivial.  The web update has been OKed off-list by Gerald, so the only
> remaining bits are in gcc/doc/install.texi.  Is that part of the build
> maintainer role too, or OK to go ahead with?

I can approve that one, too. :-)

There is one thing there that may confuse our users a bit and that is
the following:

+ You can let installed programs and libraries be stripped with
+                                                                             
+@smallexample                                                                
+make install-strip                                                           
+@end smallexample   

This could be misread as stripping already installed programs and
libraries, where I assume this installs stripped copies.  If this
is correct, would you mind adjusting this before committing your
patch?  Something like "You can install stripped..." perhaps?

Gerald



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