[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: move skeleton overlay installations before strip step

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Mon Jan 27 14:11:31 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

 > On 24/01/14 03:32, Danomi Manchego wrote:
 >> Nothing prevents the skeleton overlays from having pre-built

 >  Small nit: it's not a skeleton overlay, but a rootfs overlay (I first
 > thought you were talking about the skeleton, which is copied _before_
 > the build).

 >> executables or libraries in them.  Therefore, we should install
 >> the overlays prior to stripping, so that any such pre-built stuff
 >> gets stripped too.

 >  I'm not sure if I agree with this change. I like the current
 > situation where the rootfs-overlay is really copied verbatim and you
 > can trust it. If there are binaries in there, we can assume that the
 > user has the cross-compiler available to strip them if he wants that.

I agree. As it is now the user has full control, which is IMHO nice.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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