MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

strip(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities strip(1)

NAME

strip — remove debug information from executable ﬁles

SYNOPSIS

strip ﬁle ...

DESCRIPTION

Note: The MPE/iX implementation of this utility does not function exactly as this man page de-

scribes. For details, see the MPE/iX NOTES section at the end of this man page.

strip removes debug and other information not required for execution from an executable

ﬁle with a view to conserving disk space for production (that is, already debugged) programs.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 Successful completion.

1 An error occurred.

Messages

The following messages are generated by the strip front-end.

Message: ’ﬁlename’ is not a valid program (file code should be

NMPRG) - file ignored

Cause: The ﬁle code of the speciﬁed ﬁle was not NMPRG

Action: Make sure that you have speciﬁed the correct ﬁle and that it is a valid native-

mode program.

Message: invalid option ’option’

Cause: You speciﬁed an option for strip. strip does not accept any options.

Action: Do not specify any options on the command line.

Message: strip failed

Cause: strip was unable to run the native strip utility.

Action: Make sure that your

PATH

environment variable includes the directory contain-

ing the native strip utility, and that you have the necessary permissions to run

the program.

The following messages are generated by the native strip utility.

Message: cannot open temporary file

Cause: strip could not open the temporary ﬁle to which it was trying to write its out-

put.

Action: Check permission bits of temporary directory (usually /tmp).

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