I'm trying to ipkg a small editor and can't find the origin of a "strip" command. The error is: strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `e3c'

Found similar problem in http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=2174, but I don't see a mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -s option passed. I've looked thru package/Makefile and package original Makefile in dl/package.tar.gz, but no luck.

Any ideas on how to deal with "strip" failures?

#make compile (output below)

install_prefix="/home/mtnguide/src/cross/OpenWrt-SDK-Linux-i686-1/build_mipsel/e3-2.6.2/ipkg-install" \
all install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mtnguide/src/cross/OpenWrt-SDK-Linux-i686-1/build_mipsel/e3-2.6.2/e3c'
/home/mtnguide/src/cross/OpenWrt-SDK-Linux-i686-1/staging_dir_mipsel/bin/mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -w  -g -O1 -DLIBDIR=\"'/usr/local'/lib\" e3.c -o e3c
strip e3c
strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `e3c'
make[2]: *** [e3c] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mtnguide/src/cross/OpenWrt-SDK-Linux-i686-1/build_mipsel/e3-2.6.2/e3c'
make[1]: *** [/home/mtnguide/src/cross/OpenWrt-SDK-Linux-i686-1/build_mipsel/e3-2.6.2/.built] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mtnguide/src/cross/OpenWrt-SDK-Linux-i686-1/package/e3'
make: *** [e3-compile] Error 2

Can you post your SDK Makefile for that package here please?

Sorry for the delay. The strip error turned out to be a much smaller problem compared  to issues with the C source. The save file function in the e3 source is not working when compiled with mipsel toolchain and I figure there's a dependency or two that's missing. Still working on it. I will try to post Makefile and other ideas soon.

olli_24, thanks for the reply.