Re: [PATCH] Allow user to choose strip program when configure

Alexander Strasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-02-21 21:24 +0100, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> thanks for sending the patch! Looks OK to me.
>
> I guess it won't work with BSD versions of install. If I understand
> correctly, you would need to have an environment variable named
> STRIPBIN set up with the path of the strip program to use and
> they don't have a command line option for changing the used strip
> program.
>
> AFAIK the program install isn't standardized at all, so I don't know
> if there are even more variations, besides GNU and BSD to consider.
>
> I think it's not that important to have it working everywhere right
> now, because I can't see that suddenly lots of MPlayer builders would
> use that option. Though after writing this, I wonder how others
> cross-compiling MPlayer currently deal with the situation or they
> all just don't strip the binaries at all? Or they do it manually
> before or after install?

Trying to answer my own question: I assume for most cross-compiling
it's not a problem because of the ELF binary format.


> I will give it a bit more thought and commit your patch if I can't
> find anymore problems. If other have comments now would be the right
> time.

Sorry for the long delay!

I have committed a modified patch as SVN r38186 .


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  Alexander
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