On 10/11/2013 3:25 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> That mail only refers to "warnings" and "not working".  I have yet to see
> the actual warnings pasted or get confirmation that the stripping either
> works as expected or has no effect on those platforms.

If you looked at the actual code, it was a '-' in front of it, which allows
it to not fail. strip will be a no-op when it doesn't recognize -wN because
it prints it's default help (like 3 lines).

>> strip is not POSIX. strip is *only* binutils.
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/strip.html

This is not actually in POSIX yet. Note "(DEVELOPMENT)".

>> The only "portability" check we need is for a sufficiently new
>> version. Technically, we don't even need that, since as it is, if -wN
>> is not recognized, it is a noop, which is the correct behavior for our
>> use case. We are *only* stirpping the spurious labels, and nothing
>> else, if -wN exists.
> 
> If indeed nothing happens on these platforms, arguably the correct thing
> is to skip stripping entirely.

I already asked if we should do this in the other thread I linked.

- Derek
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