The attached patch causes strip to remove the temporary file created if it doesn't recognize the format of the input file.
Created attachment 116406 [details] Patch to remove temp file
Please create a ChangeLog entry for that and submit it to upstream <binutils.com>. Thanks.
Submitted upstream.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.