Yank $STRIP from config (and STRIP=no weirdness) and just allow strip to fail.
diff --git a/scripts/make.sh b/scripts/make.sh
index 9e4b83e..4cb1927 100755
--- a/scripts/make.sh
+++ b/scripts/make.sh
@@ -268,11 +268,10 @@
[ $DONE -ne 0 ] && exit 1
do_loudly $BUILD $LFILES $LINK || exit 1
-if [ "$STRIP" == no ]
+if ! do_loudly ${CROSS_COMPILE}strip toybox_unstripped -o toybox
then
- mv toybox_unstripped toybox
-else
- do_loudly ${CROSS_COMPILE}${STRIP} toybox_unstripped -o toybox || exit 1
+ echo "strip failed, using unstripped" && cp toybox_unstripped toybox ||
+ exit 1
fi
# gcc 4.4's strip command is buggy, and doesn't set the executable bit on
# its output the way SUSv4 suggests it do so.