[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs: allow strip binaries when create rootfs

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:00:05 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:

> This is a simple approach to the problem, indeed. However, I think the
> choice is not needed: just keep the boolean option, and move the whole
> stripping out of target-finalize and into the fs creation step.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm not sure about this change. I understand that's it's an easy way to
have all binaries unstripped on the build machine, while having them
stripped on the target.

However, it makes $(TARGET_DIR) move further away from what will
actually end up on the target. I tend (and I guess a number of users as
well) to look at $(O)/target to see what my root filesystem looks like,
what it contains, etc. So all the post-processing steps that we add in
the root filesystem generation logic kind of "hides" this
post-processing from the eyes of the person looking at $(O)/target.

Furthermore, I believe this change is going to break "make size-stats",
because make size-stats looks at the size of files installed in
$(O)/target.

I think the long term idea instead was to install all packages to
STAGING_DIR, so that we have an unstripped installation of all packages.

Best regards,

Thomas
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