Re: Stripping ELF .note and .comment sections?

[Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi>]

Topi Miettinen writes:
> Martin Schulze writes:
> > s/debhelper & co/install -s/g  ?
> 
> install -s calls strip, and strip flags include (tadaa)
> --strip-section!
> 
> If install -s is modified to insert "--strip-section=.note
> --strip-section=.comment" to strip flags, whole process becomes a non-issue
> to maintainer:
> 
> 1. upgrade to fileutils vX.X-x.
> 2. debian/rules binary.

Here's a patch:

diff -ru src/install.c.orig src/install.c
--- src/install.c.orig  Sat Mar 21 12:54:43 1998
+++ src/install.c       Sat Mar 21 12:56:53 1998
@@ -566,7 +566,8 @@
       error (1, errno, _("fork system call failed"));
       break;
     case 0:                    /* Child. */
-      execlp ("strip", "strip", path, (char *) NULL);
+      execlp ("strip", "strip", "--remove-section=.comment",
+        "--remove-section=.note", path, (char *) NULL);
       error (1, errno, _("cannot run strip"));
       break;
     default:                   /* Parent. */

-Topi



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