Re: [Boost-build] [V2] [Darwin] Workaround for broken strip functionality

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 08:43:08

On Apr 11, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> I have applied a modificaton of your patch, that uses conditional  
> inside
> Boost.Build to decide if strip command should be invoked, as  
> opposed to
> conditional in shell command.

Ah, interesting trick. Thanks!

> BTW, do you know if this behaviour of "-s" is a bug in Darwin  
> tools, or
> there's some explanation?

The consensus seems to be that it's a bug in the Darwin linker on Mac  
OS 10.4.x.

> The patch as I've committed follows, let me know if this works for  
> you -- I've
> did some "bjam -n" testing but can't be 100% sure without real OSX.

I'll check it out. OSL-V2 will be testing this configuration nightly,  
so we should be able to get the Darwin toolset back up to speed in a  
couple of days.

        Doug