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Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'
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Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip' |
Date: |
26 May 2001 00:02:31 -0600 |
>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej W Rozycki <address@hidden> writes:
Maciej> INSTALL_PROGRAM='${INSTALL} -s' ./configure
Maciej> make
Maciej> make install
Maciej> which I actually use for plain autoconf packages, which have
Maciej> no idea of install-strip. Still, it's more like a workaround
Maciej> than a solution when the install-strip target exists but is
Maciej> unoptimal.
Here in automake-land, we've long considered this the primary
approach, with install-strip secondary. My recollection is that
install-strip was added to the standards by RMS because he didn't want
to add INSTALL_SCRIPT. In those days François advocated
INSTALL_SCRIPT precisely so that stripping could be done at install
time. RMS didn't like this and added install-strip instead. For
automake I did both: install-strip because it was mandated, and
INSTALL_SCRIPT because, unlike install-strip, it had already been in
use in the field for some time and was known to be useful and
workable.
I agree that having install-strip work efficiently is important.
However I don't believe that it is more important than (1) getting 1.5
out in a timely way (though I don't believe this will derail it either
way), or (2) autoconf 2.13 support.
Maciej> Note that autoconf 2.13 isn't an issue anymore, I think.
Maciej> Version 2.50 is already released.
I disagree. I believe that uptake of 2.50 will be slow and so
continuing support for 2.13 is important.
However, beliefs are not intrinsically useful. Can we find a more
rational basis for making this decision?
Tom
- automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Maciej W. Rozycki, 2001/05/23
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Tom Tromey, 2001/05/24
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Maciej W. Rozycki, 2001/05/24
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/05/25
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Maciej W. Rozycki, 2001/05/25
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip',
Tom Tromey <=
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/05/28
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Maciej W. Rozycki, 2001/05/28
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/05/29
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Maciej W. Rozycki, 2001/05/28
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Oliva, 2001/05/26
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Tom Tromey, 2001/05/26
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Oliva, 2001/05/26
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/05/28
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Maciej W. Rozycki, 2001/05/28
- Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip', Alexandre Oliva, 2001/05/28