Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Re: Disabling "strip" in Emerge

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:48, Christian Parpart wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2004 1:28 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:24:44 -0800 (PST) Sorav Bansal
> >
> > <sbansal@××××××××.edu> wrote:
> > | Hence, any project that calls install -s will be troublesome for me.
> > | Anyways, I really appreciate your help. In case you have any
> > | suggestions on how to get around the install -s problem, that would be
> > | great!
> >
> > As I recall from when we first started messing around with cross
> > compiling (we couldn't get strip to work...) the easiest way is to make
> > strip a symlink to /bin/true...
>
> OTOH, it shall be possible to provide a new eclass function (maybe executed
> by default) that modifies each existing Makefile that strips out all -s
> right behind "install" commands. Just like done with strip-flags for
> C[XX]FLAGS.
>
> That impossible?

Well, allmost. Maybe a good option would be to write an install wrapper, and 
add it to a portage private directory that gets prepended to the path. This 
install wrapper would strip the -s part from the install command if nostrip 
is in FEATURES. You can even do this with /etc/portage/bashrc ;-)

Paul

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