Bug 1255543

Summary: confusing error message with eu-strip (Only one input file allowed together with '-o' and '-f')
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Johnny Robeson <johnny>
Component: elfutilsAssignee: Mark Wielaard <mjw>
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Description Johnny Robeson 2015-08-20 21:31:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

with elfutils-0.163.1.fc21 and this command:
usr/bin/eu-strip  --remove-comment -f /home/johnny/hhvm-repo/hhvm/BUILDROOT/hhvm-3.9.0-1.fc21.x86_64/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/hh_format.debug /home/johnny/hhvm-repo/hhvm/BUILDROOT/hhvm-3.9.0-1.fc21.x86_64/usr/bin/hh_format

I'm getting this error:
/usr/bin/eu-strip: Only one input file allowed together with '-o' and '-f'

I think this behaviour has changed in recent Fedora 21 builds, but I'm not entirely sure.

Do you see anything wrong with that command?
Comment 1 Mark Wielaard 2015-08-21 12:29:22 UTC 
(In reply to Johnny Robeson from comment #0)
> with elfutils-0.163.1.fc21 and this command:
> usr/bin/eu-strip  --remove-comment -f
> /home/johnny/hhvm-repo/hhvm/BUILDROOT/hhvm-3.9.0-1.fc21.x86_64/usr/lib/debug/
> usr/bin/hh_format.debug
> /home/johnny/hhvm-repo/hhvm/BUILDROOT/hhvm-3.9.0-1.fc21.x86_64/usr/bin/
> hh_format
> 
> I'm getting this error:
> /usr/bin/eu-strip: Only one input file allowed together with '-o' and '-f'
> 
> I think this behaviour has changed in recent Fedora 21 builds, but I'm not
> entirely sure.
>
> Do you see anything wrong with that command?

That should be fine. If I do the following everything goes as expected:

$ echo "int main() { return 0; }" | gcc -g -o prog -xc -
$ eu-strip --remove-comment -f prog.debug prog

maybe there is an unexpected space or newline in your command line?
Comment 2 Johnny Robeson 2015-08-22 08:00:59 UTC 
yep, it was some space. i removed the quoting of the arguments that get passed to the script and it went away.