From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:33:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: install: enhance error diagnostic when running strip fails
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b60d7a5aa3ca3f23445edac107d792fc7f2828b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

install: enhance error diagnostic when running strip fails

* src/install.c (strip): Mention explicitly that the strip program
failed in the case the user specified a custom strip program name.
---

diff --git a/src/install.c b/src/install.c
index 9cb13d4294..26bc16e110 100644
--- a/src/install.c
+++ b/src/install.c
@@ -518,7 +518,13 @@ strip (char const *name)
 
   bool ok = false;
   if (result != 0)
-    error (0, result, _("cannot run %s"), quoteaf (strip_program));
+    {
+      error (0, result,
+             streq (strip_program, "strip")
+               ? _("cannot run %s")
+               : _("cannot run strip program %s"),
+             quoteaf (strip_program));
+    }
   else
     {
       /* Wait for 'strip' to complete, and emit a warning message on failure  */