[LLVMdev] install and the strip command

[Richard Pennington]

On 02/26/2014 11:05 PM, Simon Atanasyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:36 AM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>> Trying to do a "make install" on a mips box .
>>
>> llvm[2]: Installing Release+Asserts Archive Library
>> /home/rkotler/caviumllvmwclang/install/lib/libLLVMLineEditor.a
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/rkotler/caviumllvmwclang/build/lib/LineEditor'
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rkotler/caviumllvmwclang/build/lib'
>> make[1]: Entering directory
>> `/home/rkotler/caviumllvmwclang/build/tools/llvm-config'
>> llvm[1]: Installing llvm-config-host
>> strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file
>> `/home/rkotler/caviumllvmwclang/install/bin/llvm-config-host'
>> /usr/bin/install: strip process terminated abnormally
>> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/rkotler/caviumllvmwclang/build/tools/llvm-config'
>> make: *** [install] Error 1
>>
>>
>> I can provide another strip but I don' think that we have a way to control
>> the install command to use it.
> It's a known problem. See r142997 and r143009. And this discussion:
> http://llvm.1065342.n5.nabble.com/The-make-install-fails-in-cross-compile-mode-td23139.html
>
> Install tool invokes strip. GNU install allows to configure which
> strip to use (--strip-program). In general (for example on FreeBSD) it
> is not possible and install always runs just 'strip'. In case of
> cross-compilation that leads to the error.
>
> The workaround, I hope it still works, is to keep symbols:
> KEEP_SYMBOLS=1 make install
>

Another workaround is to configure with --enable-keep-symbols.

I had to chuckle when I read the discussion you pointed to. Reed was in it.

-Rich