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23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2507: 23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:53:45 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
>   strip emacs.exe
>   emacs -Q
>
> results in the OS popping an error dialog saying:
>
>   emacs.exe is not a valid Win32 application

Presumably Emacs doesn't strip itself, otherwise it wouldn't work at all
on Windows, which it apparently does.  :-)

So it this still a problem?

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