On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:31 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote: > > 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/.
OK thanks! > > 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. See below. So far I've had to use "make install" then run the strip operation by hand afterwards. > > 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. Sorry, I wasn't explicit enough. When I say "cross-compile binutils", I mean exactly that: I'm building binutils with a cross-compiler, so that the resulting executable will run on a different architecture. I don't mean that I'm building binutils to BE part of a cross-compiler: in that case you're right, I'd need to use the host's strip command. What I'm doing is building binutils on Intel but I want it to run on PPC. Thus, the resulting binaries are PPC binaries and in order to strip them I need to use the cross-compiler's "strip" command, not the native system's "strip". > 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. This is exactly what I did: I set STRIP='powerpc-linux-gnu-strip' in the environment before I invoked configure. In the top-level makefile, I see that the STRIP variable has been set to powerpc-linux-gnu-strip. I also see that when the top-level makefile invokes the sub-makes, it sends that value (along with CC and the rest of it) to the sub-makes as overrides on the command line. But, when I look at the binutils/Makefile, I see that the STRIP variable is simply set to "strip", not the cross-compiler version of "strip". So if I invoke "make install-strip" directly from within the binutils subdirectory rather than from the top level, the cross-compiler version of STRIP is not set and it tries to use "strip" instead... which fails. Cheers! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
