[yocto] INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:15 AM Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dimitris,
>
> Good find... I will see about documenting this.
>

Although its not encouranged to use it, its to be used as a last resort
we use it sparingly.

> Scott
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:12 AM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this is not a request for help.
>>
>> Today, I've found a very nice option which is not documented
>> which is the INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP and is used in the sysroot_strip()
>> inside the poky/meta/classes/staging.bbclass.
>>
>> I had an issue with a recipe that had a few binaries that I wanted to add to the
>> recipe-sysroot-native in order to build another package and I was getting errors
>> because the do_populate_sysroot couldn't strip those binaries. I've searched in
>> the source and found that the author of that code was handling this case, but it's
>> not documented (at least in the latest mega-manual).
>>
>> Therefore, I'm dropping this message as a reference to other that might need it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dimitris
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