Re: [patch #8675] elftoolchain strip support

[Ed Maste]

On 27 May 2015 at 13:59, Ed Maste <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Currently libtool does not properly detect elftoolchain's version of 
>> strip(1).
>> The proposed patch fixes this.
>
> For reference, this issue has been discussed in FreeBSD at
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198611
>
> It's possible to simplify the test a little bit; $EGREP is already
> used in libtool.m4. This is what I had:
>
> --- a/m4/libtool.m4
> +++ b/m4/libtool.m4
> @@ -2207,7 +2207,8 @@ m4_defun([_LT_CMD_STRIPLIB],
>  striplib=
>  old_striplib=
>  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether stripping libraries is possible])
> -if test -n "$STRIP" && $STRIP -V 2>&1 | $GREP "GNU strip" >/dev/null; then
> +if test -n "$STRIP" && $STRIP -V 2>&1 |
> +  $EGREP "GNU strip|strip.*elftoolchain" >/dev/null; then
>    test -z "$old_striplib" && old_striplib="$STRIP --strip-debug"
>    test -z "$striplib" && striplib="$STRIP --strip-unneeded"
>    AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])

Following up again to see about including this patch in libtool. Is
there anything else I can do to have this considered?