coreutils: add TODO note about stripping the installed binaries
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:15 +0000 (15:00 +0200)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:15 +0000 (15:00 +0200)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 4de15ab27c8f859da6fca49cae4078031ee78bf3..bf98fea1b0dfaa1a85539e1681d432aa28c5a823 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -5,3 +5,13 @@ Buildroot2 TODOs
 - convert all packages that use autoconf to use the infrastructure of
   packages/Makefile.autotools.in
 - fix setting of flags for packages
+
+- coreutils: use make install-strip to install the packages. For now,
+  it fails beause even if we pass STRIP="/path/to/$(ARCH)-strip", the
+  coreutils build system uses the host strip to strip target
+  binaries. The ./configure execution done by Buildroot properly
+  detects the cross-strip, but when running make, build-aux/missing
+  gets run, complains about aclocal-1.10c and atuomake-1.10c not being
+  present, and rerun the configuration... with the wrong environment
+  variables (STRIP= is missing). An autoreconf on this package is
+  probably necessary.