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| author |   Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> | 2010-08-11 19:39:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> | 2010-08-11 19:39:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 2b2ec4dd4b7fb08a13349c284c8a251273643c04 (patch) | |
| tree | e87532aa92a53b2c068d297cc7e82dcd42192a9c /config/binutils/sstrip.in | |
| parent | 2e7698ed025678e8f649712d6488dc1d41e453d9 (diff) | |
binutils/sstrip: mark as obsolete
sstrip is causing more trouble and grief than tolerable.
It is broken at least on PPC. It does not build on non-ELF
systems (eg. mingw32, MacOS-X...). Plus, it is easy to
install.
Hide it behind OBSOLETE.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Diffstat (limited to 'config/binutils/sstrip.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | config/binutils/sstrip.in | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/config/binutils/sstrip.in b/config/binutils/sstrip.in index b518697..c5dfc90 100644 --- a/config/binutils/sstrip.in +++ b/config/binutils/sstrip.in @@ -1,17 +1,23 @@ # Configuration file for sstrip tool facility -# depends on ! BACKEND + +if OBSOLETE && ! BACKEND && ARCH_BINFMT_ELF comment "sstrip" - depends on ARCH_BINFMT_ELF config SSTRIP bool - prompt "sstrip" - depends on ARCH_BINFMT_ELF + prompt "sstrip (OBSOLETE)" help The sstrip utility, to maximise the striping of ELF binaries (executables and libraries). - Buildroot version, forked off the original from ELFkickers. This one - is somewhat maintained by the buildroot guys. + Buildroot version, forked off the original from ELFkickers. + This one is somewhat maintained by the buildroot guys. Supports big-endian systems. + + NOTE! Please read. + sstrip is now deprecated in crosstool-NG, as it has a few + shortcomings. For example: it breaks for PPC targets, it + does not build on non-ELF hosts (eg. mingw32, MacOS-X...). + +endif |