[Buildroot] [PATCH] core: always pass full path to strip command

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat,  1 Jul 2017 09:42:05 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> In some cases, passing STRIP=true is not sufficient to disable striping
> altogether, as some (incorrectly generated?) configure scripts will
> ignore a ${STRIP} that is not a full path.
> 
> This is the case, for example, for nmap, which ends up using the host
> strip command when we pass STRIP=true:
> 
>     checking for arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabihf-strip... no
>     checking for strip... /usr/bin/strip
>     configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
>     [--SNIP--]
>     /usr/bin/install -c -c -m 755 nping /home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/target/usr/bin/nping
>     /usr/bin/strip -x /home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/target/usr/bin/nping
>     /usr/bin/strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/target/usr/bin/nping'
> 
> We fix that by forcing a full path to the strip sommand when it is
> disabled: STRIP=/bin/true
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> ---
>  package/Makefile.in | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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