[yocto] INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 10:22:02 PST 2019


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:48 AM Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think we should probably at least document the variable in the YP Reference Manual's glossary.  Correct?
>

yes and also mention that we only expect it to be used in rare special
curcumstances, e,g, prebuilt binaries etc.

> 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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