[LLVMdev] install and the strip command

[Reed Kotler]

All the tools in

./BuildTools/Release+Asserts/bin/

Are host tools. Since I'm not doing the make install on the target, then 
strip does not know about these.

It knows enough to install these as
xxx-host

but not enough to not call strip.


On 02/27/2014 06:19 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:53:20AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
>> On 27 February 2014 00:05, Simon Atanasyan <simon at atanasyan.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Actually it is possible on FreeBSD -- from install(1):
>>
>> ENVIRONMENT
>>       The install utility checks for the presence of the STRIPBIN environment
>>       variable and if present, uses the assigned value as the program to run if
>>       and when the -s option has been specified.
>>
>> I'm not aware of other BSDs having this though, and supporting a
>> collection of command options and environment settings on various
>> platforms seems like it would be rather awkward.
>
> For NetBSD, it is STRIP.
>
> Joerg
>