[Buildroot] On strip and debugging symbols

[William Wagner <will_wagner@carallon.com>]

  On 23/06/2010 09:46, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>
> As mentionned before, adding $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin to the path is just
> wrong. The possible solutions to this are :
>
>   * Install the toolchain outside of $(STAGING_DIR) and then re-use what
>     we do for external toolchains, and then tell people to not add
>     $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin to their PATH, but rather the location where
>     the toolchain was installed. This has the added benefit that
>     $(STAGING_DIR) would not contain binaries compiled for the host,
>     mixed with binaries compiled for the target.
>
>
I think that long term making sure that target and host binaries do not 
end up in the same folder is a good idea. Creating a new folder for host 
tools and putting toolchain in there seems like quite a clear way of 
doing things, but would obviously cause a lot of disruption as people 
learnt the new way of doing things.

Will