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strings: Unconditionally install ELF Tool Chain's strings
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Authored by emaste on Apr 30 2025, 2:01 PM.
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Reported by olivier - `cat coredump | strings` resulted in reading 1G into memory before producing any output. We always install strings (regardless of WITH_/WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN) and ELF Tool Chain's version is small and lightweight. Go back to always installing ELF Tool Chain's version.

This reverts commit 81fa5c4a828bec9f1ead280c59c31bd423e6eeea.
This reverts commit 7ca3db1999cd967f9d6d7b259aa7af54aae14a5f.

PR: 286605

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