[LLVMdev] The make install fails in cross-compile mode

[Charles Davis]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:

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> On Oct 22, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Atanasyan, Simon wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I cross-compile llvm/clang. The build platform is x86_64-linux-gnu. The host platform is mips-linux-gnu. Llvm and clang built successfully but "make install" shows the following error:
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>> % make install
>> llvm[0]: Installing Release+Asserts /home/simon/work/install/clang/bin/llvm-tblgen
>> strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `/home/simon/work/install/clang/bin/llvm-tblgen'
>> /usr/bin/install: strip process terminated abnormally
>> make: *** [/home/simon/work/install/clang/bin/llvm-tblgen] Error 1
>> 
>> The problem is that "install" is run with "-s" argument to strip symbols but always uses default "strip" executable even in cross-compile mode. To fix the bug I check for the "strip" executable in the configure.ac and provide the result to the "install" command using "--strip-program" argument. The patches are attached to this email.
You guys are aware that this feature is specific to GNU install, right? BSD install--and incidentally, Mac OS X uses BSD install--does not have this. Congratulations: you just broke installing on Mac OS and the BSDs. I'm going to revert this change right away.

Chip