[haiku-development] Re: BeOS resources and strip

  • From: Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:18:22 +0200

2009/4/20 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
>
> On 2009-04-20 at 17:29:14 [+0200], Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > You mean besides not stripping it? No, since the resources are really just
>> > appended to the actual ELF file. They don't appear as section or segment
>> > in
>> > the ELF structure. We might want to change that someday, though.
>>
>> Couldn't you strip first and then run xres? or is there something
>> that'd prevent that?
>
> No, that would work. You could even wrap "strip" by a script that would save
> the resources, strip, and reattach the resources. I just assumed that
> original question was whether the strip command itself could be made to leave
> the resources in peace.
>
> CU, Ingo
>
>
There was a "SuperStrip" app on bebits, which didn't touch the
resources. Unfortunately it wasn't command line based, but GUI only.
Maybe it did exactly what you just described.

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