Hi Paul,
Is there another/better way to do this?
Not really, sorry. :-(
I wanted to have the binutils
tools stripped when they are installed. Typically for autoconfiscated
environments I run "make install-strip" to do this.
For binutils if I try this I get:
make: *** No rule to make target `install-strip'. Stop.
>
It looks like the top-level makefile in binutils doesn't grok the
install-strip target.
Correct. If you are really miffed by this, please file a bug report at
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/. The top level binutils makefile is
shared by the gcc and gdb projects, so any changes to it will have to be
acceptable to them as well.
However if I look at the individual targets like
the binutils subdirectory, they do have install-strip.
True. I am hoping that this is sufficient for your purposes.
On the gripping hand, though, I'm trying to cross-compile binutils and
it doesn't work to cd directly to binutils-2.18/binutils and run "make
install-strip" then it tries to use the "strip" command (which fails)
instead of the cross-strip program, because the sub-makefiles expect the
cross-tools to be provided as command-line overrides on the make
invocation.
When I tried this on my machine it worked without any problems. I am
not sure exactly what you mean when you complain that it uses the
"strip" command instead of the cross-strip program, since surely it is
the host's strip command that should be used. For example this is what
happens when I run "make install-strip" in the binutils build directory
of an arm-eabi toolchain. [Edited to remove superfluous stuff]:
make INSTALL_PROGRAM="/bin/sh
/work/sources/binutils/current/install-sh -c -s" \
install_sh_PROGRAM="/bin/sh /work/sources/binutils/current/install-sh
-c -s" \
INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG=-s `test -z 'strip' || \
echo "INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV=STRIPPROG='strip'"` install
[...]
STRIPPROG='strip' /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /bin/sh
/work/sources/binutils/current/install-sh -c -s 'size'
'/dev/shm/del-me/install/bin/arm-eabi-size'
libtool: install: /bin/sh /work/sources/binutils/current/install-sh -c
-s size /dev/shm/del-me/install/bin/arm-eabi-size
[...]
And libtool then installs a stripped binary into the install directory:
% file ../install/bin/arm-eabi-readelf
../install/bin/arm-eabi-readelf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
2.6.9, stripped
According to a comment in the binutils/configure file you can also use
the environment variable STRIP to override the strip program used when
installing stripped binaries.
Cheers
Nick
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