[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] Makefile: do not try to strip inexisting file when stripping libpthread

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Wed Aug 21 19:33:44 UTC 2013


On 20/08/13 13:03, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> libpthread.so has a special stripping condition to preserve parts of
> it that are needed for debugging. However, due to the usage of 'xargs'
> instead of 'xargs -r', the strip command is executed regardless of
> whether a libpthread.so file is found or not. This leads to a big
> error message being displayed in static-only builds, because strip is
> executed without a file argument. Thanks to the '|| true', the build
> continues, but still shows a big error message in the middle, which is
> not nice.
>
> By using 'xargs -r', we avoid the strip command from being executed
> when 'find' doesn't find any match. We also remove the '|| true' to
> catch other real errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

  I'd find it more natural to use the -exec option of find, but this 
patch solves a real problem so

Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

> ---
>   Makefile | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 5d40126..9201f27 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ endif
>   # I set a breakpoint"
>   ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),y)
>   	find $(TARGET_DIR)/lib -type f -name 'libpthread*.so*' | \
> -		xargs $(STRIPCMD) $(STRIP_STRIP_DEBUG) || true
> +		xargs -r $(STRIPCMD) $(STRIP_STRIP_DEBUG)
>   endif
>
>   	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/etc
>


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