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   Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 01:25:37 JST Peter Tribble

   Stumbled across an unusual Solaris oddity this morning.

   On Solaris 11, there's a /usr/bin/gstrip but not a /usr/gnu/bin/strip. All the other binutils commands are in /usr/gnu/bin with g-prefixed links in /usr/bin, but not strip, which is in /usr/gnu/bin/gstrip. Why is it the odd one out, I wonder?

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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 01:25:34 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Volker A. Brandt

     @vab @ptribble it's intentional, not a bug. It was removed because GNU strip often corrupts Solaris binaries, and many times when we build other FOSS we set /usr/gnu/bin first in the path (because they expect GNU grep,msgfmt, xgettext, etc. when building), and would then get bad binaries when they called strip and found GNU strip instead of Solaris strip.

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     Volker A. Brandt (vab@bonn.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 01:25:36 JST Volker A. Brandt

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     • Alan Coopersmith

     @ptribble Someone should ask @alanc and/or file a bug ;-)

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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 01:26:33 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Volker A. Brandt

     @vab @ptribble it's an unintended fallout of our moving all the binaries from /usr/ccs/bin to /usr/bin and making /usr/ccs/bin a symlink to /usr/bin - we can't formulate a $PATH that finds Solaris strip ahead of GNU strip, but all the other GNU commands ahead of the Solaris equivalents.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 01:29:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Volker A. Brandt
     • Alan Coopersmith
     @alanc @vab @ptribble Quite an interesting one given that meanwhile the Linux distros I'm aware of forbid binaries from being pre-stripped, mostly so they can properly have things like -debug packages but also just make sure there's even debug symbols in the first place.