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


On 25 May 2001, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

>  Maciej> Note that I'm writing of a performance.  Install-sh is a serious
>  Maciej> performance hit for non-trivial installs.
> 
> Then maybe you could bypass install-strip using something like 
>   ./configure LDFLAGS=-s
>   make
>   make install

 Well, stripping binaries upon linking makes one lose the ability to debug
uninstalled binaries.  A better approach is to use:

INSTALL_PROGRAM='${INSTALL} -s' ./configure
make
make install

which I actually use for plain autoconf packages, which have no idea of
install-strip.  Still, it's more like a workaround than a solution when
the install-strip target exists but is unoptimal. 

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