[Buildroot] [PATCH] build: add option to exclude executables from being stripped
From: Sven Neumann <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-22 14:58:59
Subsystem:
kernel build + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere), the rest · Maintainers:
Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Linus Torvalds
Sometimes it may be desirable to keep debug symbols for some binaries and libraries on the target. This commit introduces the config option BR2_STRIP_EXCLUDES which is interpreted as a list of such binaries and libraries. It is passed to the find command in the target-finalize step. Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann <redacted> --- Config.in | 8 ++++++++ Makefile | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 2fce9d7..f6d10d7 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in@@ -243,6 +243,14 @@ config BR2_STRIP_none none do not strip (only for debugging!) endchoice +config BR2_STRIP_EXCLUDES + string "executables that should not be stripped" + depends on !BR2_STRIP_none + default "" + help + You may specify a list of binaries and libraries here that + should not be stripped on the target. + choice prompt "gcc optimization level" default BR2_OPTIMIZE_S
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 24f0cb2..138ecd1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ HOSTCC := $(CCACHE) $(HOSTCC) HOSTCXX := $(CCACHE) $(HOSTCXX) endif +# executables that should not be stripped in target-finalize +DONT_STRIP:=$(patsubst %,-not -name '%',$(call qstrip,$(BR2_STRIP_EXCLUDES))) + include toolchain/Makefile.in include package/Makefile.in
@@ -447,7 +450,8 @@ endif ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYC_ONLY),y) find $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/ -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f endif - find $(TARGET_DIR) -type f -perm +111 '!' -name 'libthread_db*.so*' | \ + find $(TARGET_DIR) -type f -perm +111 '!' -name 'libthread_db*.so*' \ + $(DONT_STRIP) | \ xargs $(STRIPCMD) 2>/dev/null || true find $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/modules -type f -name '*.ko' | \ xargs -r $(KSTRIPCMD) || true
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