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authormatoro <matoro@users.noreply.github.com>2023-04-27 15:07:06 -0400
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2023-04-29 17:26:18 +0200
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function-reference/install-functions: add note about paths to dostrip
Found this extremely unintuitive especially compared to the documentation on the `dosym` function which is much clearer. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/888817 Signed-off-by: Matoro Mahri <matoro@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
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@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ The <c>*into</c> functions create the directory if it does not already exist.
Normally executed to exclude from stripping.
Eg. <c>dostrip -x /path/to/important.so</c>. May also be used to include binaries
to strip when <c>RESTRICT=strip</c> without the -x option.
+ Provided paths are relative to <c>${ED}</c>, even if they begin with a slash.
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