This flag does not exist in GNU objcopy but has a major use case.
Debugging tools support the .build-id directory structure to find
debug binaries. There is no easy way to build this structure up
however. One way to do it is by using llvm-readelf and some crazy
shell magic. This implements the feature directly. It is most often
the case that you'll want to strip a file and send the original to
the .build-id directory but if you just want to send a file to the
.build-id directory you can copy to /dev/null instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54384
llvm-svn: 348174
In this diff the elf-specific tests are moved into the subfolder llvm-objcopy/ELF
(the change was discussed in the comments on https://reviews.llvm.org/D54674).
A separate code reivew wasn't sent for this change
since Phabricator is failing to create such a large diff.
Test plan:
make check-all
make check-llvm-tools
make check-llvm-tools-llvm-objcopy
llvm-svn: 347958
Jake Ehrlich