[Buildroot] [PATCH] core: always pass full path to strip command

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Jul 1 07:42:05 UTC 2017


In some cases, passing STRIP=true is not sufficient to disable striping
altogether, as some (incorrectly generated?) configure scripts will
ignore a ${STRIP} that is not a full path.

This is the case, for example, for nmap, which ends up using the host
strip command when we pass STRIP=true:

    checking for arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabihf-strip... no
    checking for strip... /usr/bin/strip
    configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
    [--SNIP--]
    /usr/bin/install -c -c -m 755 nping /home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/target/usr/bin/nping
    /usr/bin/strip -x /home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/target/usr/bin/nping
    /usr/bin/strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/target/usr/bin/nping'

We fix that by forcing a full path to the strip sommand when it is
disabled: STRIP=/bin/true

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
---
 package/Makefile.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
index 4a3eb26963..c1dc714331 100644
--- a/package/Makefile.in
+++ b/package/Makefile.in
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ TARGET_STRIP = $(TARGET_CROSS)strip
 STRIPCMD = $(TARGET_CROSS)strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
 endif
 ifeq ($(BR2_STRIP_none),y)
-TARGET_STRIP = true
+TARGET_STRIP = /bin/true
 STRIPCMD = $(TARGET_STRIP)
 endif
 INSTALL := $(shell which install || type -p install)
-- 
2.11.0



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