On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> cp netbsd netbsd.gdb
> strip -d netbsd
> strip: invalid option -- d
> ...

I don't have this problem, with Dec 23 sources. Methinks your copy
of src/gnu/dist/binutils/objcopy.c is version 1.1, not 1.2:

----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 1998/12/22 23:04:41;  author: kristerw;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
Add '-d' flag for compatibility with the old strip.
----------------------------

Update that, and rebuild src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/strip, and I bet
you'll be ok.

cjs
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