[yocto] INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP

[Scott Rifenbark]

I think we should probably at least document the variable in the YP
Reference Manual's glossary.  Correct?

Scott

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:24 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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