[PATCH] kexec: Teach configure to find the strip binary.

Yinghai Lu yinghai at kernel.org
Mon Dec 3 20:18:33 EST 2012


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
> Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:25:25PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>>> For some reason my version of the Makefile generated by configure
>>> included the line STRIP=strp.  Rerunning configure from a fresh slate
>>> did not regenerate that line so I don't know how it got there.  So add
>>> the code to Makefile.in and configure.ac to autodetect the strip binary.
>>>
>>> This is needed so that we can remove from purgatory all of the
>>> relocations to sections that are not needed at runtime, by stripping
>>> out those sections.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>>
>> Thanks, I removed the last hunk, which seems to be a white-space only
>> change to purgatory/arch/x86_64/Makefile, and applied the rest.
>
> Oops.  Thanks for cacthing that.  I didn't realize I had that change
> sitting in my tree.

after re config it. got

DIRNAME         = dirname
STRIP           = @STRIP@


instead of

STRIP = strip



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