Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 28, 2001, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 26 May 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> >  Note that I'm writing of a performance.  Install-sh is a serious
>> > performance hit for non-trivial installs.
>> 
>> How about only use install-sh for install-strip on cross builds?

>  Well, that actually handles one half of the problem (yes, I do cross
> builds regularly).. 

So do I.  But then, I don't use install-strip on them.

In any case, I don't know of any way to convince the system install
program to run a particular strip program, as opposed to plain
`strip'.  So this is as good as it gets, unless we go for MAYBE_STRIP,
which comes with its own problems, as you have pointed out.

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