Bug in install applet

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 02:56:51 Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> Twas brillig at 16:32:18 23.02.2010 UTC-06 when rob at landley.net did gyre and 
gimble:
>  >> And it is actually able to strip foreign binaries.
>
>  RL> The powerpc-strip I built is also able to strip powerpc binaries.  But
> the RL> point is that the one that came with _ubuntu_ can't
>
> RTFM. apt-get install binutils-multiarch
>
> The rest is tl;dr

You can't depend on the host strip to support your target, _or_ to reliably 
complain when it doesn't.

Short enough for you?

Rob
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