On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:30 PM, Michael Fainstein <michael.fainst...@ecitele.com>
wrote:
> IMHO program strip should be removed from meta/site/common-linux.
>
> I had a problem in my recipe: 'make install' was failing due to
> /usr/bin/strip failure to recognize file format (I am building for powerpc on
> x86_64 PC). I traced this error back to ./configure that was selecting
> /usr/bin/strip instead of powerpc-fsl-linux-gnuspe-strip. After some more
> digging I found that configure selects strip due to line
> db_cv_path_strip=${db_cv_path_strip=/usr/bin/strip}
> in meta/site/common-linux.
> I solved it by setting CONFIG_SITE="" in my recipe.
> IMHO common-linux should contain only architecture-independent definitions.
> strip is architecture-dependent (e.g. x86 strip can't handle powerpc files),
> so it shouldn't be defined in meta/site/common-linux.
I would encourage you to write a patch and send it over.
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