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Re: binutils-2.11.2 strip -s wierdness
- To: Manfred Hollstein <manfred dot h at gmx dot net>
- Subject: Re: binutils-2.11.2 strip -s wierdness
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:02:45 -0700
- Cc: Magnus Damm <damm at opensource dot se>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,bug-binutils at gnu dot org
- References: <3B9F6275.2955B2FD@opensource.se> <3B9F7A5B.7C05C50E@gmx.net>
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.