strip for Solaris 9 / Sparc

Hello Solaris wizards and users.
I use Solaris 9 on Sparc.
I installed gcc from Companion Software CD, but I have problem with strip.
When I use strip my binary won't work because it can't find ELF.
I read about that problem and people suggested using original Solaris 
(Sun?) strip.
But where is it?
How to find one?

Jacek Popwski < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:

It's /usr/ccs/bin/strip, and it's delivered by the SUNWbtool package,
which is part of the SUNWCptoo cluster, which in turn is installed
automatically if you chose SUNWCprog ("Developer System Support") or
higher during install.

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Thank you! It works.

=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jacek_Pop=B3awski?= < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:


/usr/ccs/bin/strip.
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Jacek Popwski < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:

Others have pointed you to /usr/ccs/bin/strip, but I'm curious why GNU
strip doesn't work for you.

% uname -a
SunOS elmak 5.9 Generic_117171-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 Solaris
% cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
    printf("Hello, world\n");
    return 0;
}
% /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc hello.c -o hello
% ls -l hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kst sys200 5228 Nov  8 13:53 hello
% ./hello
Hello, world
% strip --version
GNU strip 2.16.1
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
% strip hello
% ls -l hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kst sys200 3336 Nov  8 13:53 hello
% ./hello
Hello, world

Of course, you can also compile or link with "-s", but that doesn't
help for existing executables.

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bash-2.05$ cat application.cc
int main()
{
         return 0;
}
bash-2.05$ /opt/sfw/gcc-3/bin/g++ application.cc -o application
bash-2.05$ ./application
bash-2.05$ /opt/sfw/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/bin/strip application
BFD: stX4aWSn: warning: allocated section `.interp' not in segment
bash-2.05$ ./application
application: Cannot find ELF
Killed
bash-2.05$ /opt/sfw/gcc-3/bin/g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 3.3.2
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

bash-2.05$ /opt/sfw/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/bin/strip --version
GNU strip 2.11
Copyright 1997, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
bash-2.05$ uname -a
SunOS LABLupus 5.9 Generic_118558-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jacek_Pop=B3awski?= < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:





Looks like it corrupted the application.

Casper
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Known bug in older versions of gnu strip, fixed in 2002:

 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Is there even a valid reason to strip binaries these days? I mean saving the 
few bytes to loose all that usefull debugging infromation just doesnt make 
sense this day age.

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I suppose if you sell commercial software that doesn't come with a
license for the source then there could be a valid reason to want
to do it.  :-)

Also, isn't it still the case that de{*filter*}s cope better with
unoptimized (or lightly optimizd) code so that you still want to
have debug and non-debug builds of the software, or has compiler
and de{*filter*} technology improved while I wasn't looking?  (Could
happen...)

   - Logan

Logan Shaw < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:





A dynamiclly linked program's object will contain a dynamic symbol table
which contains a large subset of a program's symbol (anything not
of static linkage)


Some de{*filter*}s don't care about the level of optimization; but they
won't tell you what bits of source correspond to which bits of binary.

Casper
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