Re: question about installing libraries

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Harald,

* Harald Dunkel wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:43:53AM CEST:
> 
> AFAICS libraries are installed using ${INSTALL_DATA}.
> Wouldn't it be more consequent to use ${INSTALL_PROGRAMS}
> here?
>
> Both libraries and programs is something that could be
> stripped, i.e. you could use 'install -s'. But defining
> INSTALL_DATA to use 'install -s' doesn't work, of course.

Stripping static libraries makes them unusable on many systems
(yes, I know about GNU strip's `--strip-unneeded').
For shared libraries, if you use `libtool', there is
INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG, and the `install-strip' target.

Cheers,
Ralf