[LLVMdev] install and the strip command

[Reed Kotler]

On 02/27/2014 01:04 PM, Reed Kotler wrote:
> so if i configure with --enable-keep-symbols
>
> then a "make install" on the host works but not on the target.
>
> the resulting directory structure will be fine.
>
>
It would be better if "make install" worked on the target (also).

In this case, I'm using NFS mounted systems out of my home directory so 
it's easy to finesse this.

Otherwise I'd have to make a root files system to get something I could 
install on the target.

In this case I need to strip the executables manually, if desired, after 
the actual install, on the target.


> On 02/27/2014 12:45 PM, Reed Kotler wrote:
>> So I guess the question is: how do you do the make install?
>>
>> I'm rebuilding right now with --enable-keep-symbols and then perhaps it
>> can be installed on either the host or target.
>>
>> It's always possible to later strip the binaries in the installed bin
>> directory.
>>
>> On 02/27/2014 11:57 AM, Reed Kotler wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>