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Re: binutils-2.11.2 strip -s wierdness
From: |
H . J . Lu |
Subject: |
Re: binutils-2.11.2 strip -s wierdness |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:02:45 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 05:08:11PM +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> Magnus Damm wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've used binutils-2.10 for quite some time,
> > and now I've upgraded to 2.11.2.
> >
> > I have one wierd problem to report.
> >
> > "strip -s" works fine with 2.10, but fails with 2.11.2.
> > "strip --strip-all" seems to work though.
> >
> > Either "strip --help" gives wrong information about -s, or
> > strip acts wierd.
>
> This behaviour is caused by the merge of the objcopy and the strip
> program which had happened between 2.10 and 2.11.x. It also caused
> another failure when invoking strip as follows:
>
> $ strip -o a.stripped a.out
> Usage: strip <switches> in-file(s)
> The switches are:
> ...
>
> Both problems are fixed by the attached patch; can someone with
> write permission please install it in the branch?
>
Please check out
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-06/msg00687.html
H.J.