>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
adl> I have tested install-strip for cross-compilation with CVS
adl> Automake, doing both an in-place and a VPATH build (with relative
adl> paths, I have not tested absolute paths). It works here, great
adl> :)
Good.
adl> - $INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM assumes install-sh, not install.sh
adl> (easily fixed)
install.sh has been deprecated for years now. We warn about it.
Supporting it here is unimportant.
adl> - $_am_dirpart can fooled when $install_sh is defined
adl> using $am_missing_run
When does this happen?
adl> - $STRIP has to be set *before* AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is called
adl> (either by the user or in a configure check); I'm not
adl> really happy with that
Me neither. What if we make install-strip unconditionally use
install-sh? Do we really care about the small performance impact on a
rarely-used target?
adl> * install-strip when *not* cross-compiling:
adl> - $INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM uses sub make evaluation, does it
adl> really matters?
It doesn't matter.
Tom
