[Buildroot] [PATCH] build: remove sstrip

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue May 20 21:36:25 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > All,
 > On 2014-05-20 23:13 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
 >> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
 >> 
 >> Quoting Thomas on IRC:
 >> > sstrip is a piece of crap that we should exterminate
 >> > from the surface of the planet
 >> 
 >> sstrip is now unmaintained, has a long history of generating butchered
 >> binaries in some cases, and does not gain that much space in the end.
 >> 
 >> Obliviate sstrip from the strip options, anihilate the sstrip package,
 >> scortch any reference in fire, and cleanse our tree free of any remnants...

 > Missing legacy option, though. Will respin a bit later...

Thanks. As mentioned on IRC I would prefer to see two patches:

- One to mark it as deprecated for 2014.05 (BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2014_05)
- And another to remove it. This we can normally only merge for 205.05.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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