Re: Problem with strip (binutils-2.11.2)

[Beat Mueller]

Hi Nick

>
> > This is quite bizarre, even /usr/ccs/bin/strip behaves differently.
> >
> > what /usr/ccs/bin/strip yields:
> >         SunOS 5.7 Generic Patch August 2000
>
> Umm, do you mean with the -V option ?  If so then I get:

I meant the what-command:
what            what (1)        - extract SCCS version information from a file

>
>   /usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9/strip: Software Generation Utilities (SGU) Solaris-ELF 
> (4.0)
>
> Does this mean that we have different compiler tools installed on our
> Solaris systems ?

strip -V:
/usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9/strip: Software Generation Utilities (SGU) Solaris-ELF 
(4.0)

So it is the same. But ccs-strip was the one that worked.

>
> > # This file was generated automatically by configure.  Do not edit.
> > # This directory was configured as follows:
> > ./configure --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.7 --norecursion
>
> Which is exactly what I have too.
>
> I think that it must be a problem with the tools that we are using to
> build strip.  My system has gcc installed before cc in my path, so I
> build using gcc v2.96 (well a close variant of that actually...).  Is
> it possible for you to try rebuilding the binutils tools using an
> installed copy of gcc instead of cc ?

gcc is first in $PATH, i. e. before Sun-cc. When I just type ./configure
the script tries to use gcc, only if I start it with "env CC=cc ./configure"
it uses Sun-cc.

For the CVS-version (binutils-011009) I used simply ./configure, so it was
compiled with gcc.

I compiled gcc 3.0.1 itself with gcc 2.95.2. But I don't think that can be
the reason because strip failed to compile correctly with both versions of
gcc.


Cheers
Beat
--
Beat Müller
Institut für Elektronik
ETH Zürich - Schweiz
address@hidden