Re: [patch #8675] elftoolchain strip support

[Ed Maste]

On 20 September 2015 at 12:12, Ed Maste <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 27 May 2015 at 13:59, Ed Maste <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Currently libtool does not properly detect elftoolchain's version of 
>>> strip(1).
>>> The proposed patch fixes this.
>>
>> For reference, this issue has been discussed in FreeBSD at
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198611
>>
>> It's possible to simplify the test a little bit; $EGREP is already
>> used in libtool.m4. This is what I had:
>>
>> --- a/m4/libtool.m4
>> +++ b/m4/libtool.m4
>> @@ -2207,7 +2207,8 @@ m4_defun([_LT_CMD_STRIPLIB],
>>  striplib=
>>  old_striplib=
>>  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether stripping libraries is possible])
>> -if test -n "$STRIP" && $STRIP -V 2>&1 | $GREP "GNU strip" >/dev/null; then
>> +if test -n "$STRIP" && $STRIP -V 2>&1 |
>> +  $EGREP "GNU strip|strip.*elftoolchain" >/dev/null; then
>>    test -z "$old_striplib" && old_striplib="$STRIP --strip-debug"
>>    test -z "$striplib" && striplib="$STRIP --strip-unneeded"
>>    AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
>
> Following up again to see about including this patch in libtool. Is
> there anything else I can do to have this considered?

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