Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <address@hidden>
            Riku Voipio <address@hidden> writes:
: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:30:39PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <address@hidden>
: >             address@hidden (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
: > : On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:02:58PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > But it is SOP to install stripped binaries....  I'm likely swimming
: > : > against the tide on this one...
: > : 
: > : It is also standard to use a packaging system. :)
: 
: > It is also standard to strip before the packaging system gets
: > involved...
: 
: Stnadard where? In automake world it's not. There is a
: install-strip target available on automake.

All the world isn't automake.

I guess I've been exposed to install -s by default systems since I
started using Unix on both the 4.2BSD VAX we had as well as the Sys
III (later SYS V) AT&T hardware.  And through the years on SunOS,
Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux, etc.

I guess this boils down to "It's how its been done since the early
1980's at least" but I do know times change.

: Picking up a random non-automaked source (rsync), and behold,
: no strip in install stage. To check if this puts the non-linux
: people in deep misery, nope. The FreeBSD port copes fine
: by adding a single strip command in postinstall: target.
: 
: Unconditional stripping is bad, mmkay?

Of course.  That's why most systems have a flag called STRIP that's
passed to install so that users can turn it on or off, but it defaults
to on.

Warner