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Can I strip some debug section and why we need to cross-compile readelf

loody miloody@gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 13:42:00 GMT 2009 
Dear all:
Below are my debug section I got:
[11] .debug_line       PROGBITS        00000000 12b044 0561d7 00      0   0  1
  [12] .debug_info       PROGBITS        00000000 18121b 5214b1 00      0   0  1
  [13] .debug_abbrev     PROGBITS        00000000 6a26cc 03e940 00      0   0  1
  [14] .debug_aranges    PROGBITS        00000000 6e1010 002f30 00      0   0  8
  [15] .debug_pubnames   PROGBITS        00000000 6e3f40 00df01 00      0   0  1
  [16] .debug_str        PROGBITS        00000000 6f1e41 032caa 01  MS  0   0  1
  [17] .debug_frame      PROGBITS        00000000 724aec 02289c 00      0   0  4
  [18] .debug_loc        PROGBITS        00000000 747388 0a4e5f 00      0   0  1
  [19] .debug_ranges     PROGBITS        00000000 7ec1e7 009048 00      0   0  1

When I try to strip "debug_info" section in my program, I find all
debug sections are striped.
Does that mean it is impossible to strip any debug section, since they
have some connection?

BTW, why we need to cross-compile readelf?
In my opinion, readelf is platform independent, since it is used to
parse ELF format, which is a standard, instead of reading the content
of each section like objdump does.
If my assumption is wrong, please correct me.

appreciate your help,
miloody
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