bug#2507: 23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 2507@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:53:45 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
> >
> >   strip emacs.exe
> >   emacs -Q
> >
> > results in the OS popping an error dialog saying:
> >
> >   emacs.exe is not a valid Win32 application
> 
> Presumably Emacs doesn't strip itself, otherwise it wouldn't work at all
> on Windows, which it apparently does.  :-)

The default link command produces an unstripped binary, as on other
supported platforms.

> So it this still a problem?

Yes, of course.  No one did anything about this problem, AFAIK.