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Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'
>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:
Alexandre> On May 26, 2001, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:
>>> Note that I'm writing of a performance. Install-sh is a serious
>>> performance hit for non-trivial installs.
Alexandre> How about only use install-sh for install-strip on cross builds?
>> I'm ok with this idea. Can it be easily done with autoconf 2.13
>> compatibility?
Alexandre> Not easily. cross_compiling used to be set only
Alexandre> after compiler tests in 2.13. But we could just
Alexandre> compare $host with $build, like 2.50 does, to decide
Alexandre> whether to use install-sh -s or install -s. How
Alexandre> does this sound?
Kludgy, if that word exists :) Something similar to this was
done before we decided to use install-sh unconditionally, and
the selection of install-sh versus install led to very ugly
Makefile constructs involving submake evaluations to preserve
relative filenames and the like.
I'd really prefer the MAYBE_STRIP solution suggested in a
separate mail.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz