Re: make install-strip in cross-compilation environments

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

adl> Unfortunately, there is something roten with `make install-strip'
adl> in such case: `install' or `install-sh' are called with the `-s'
adl> option to strip installed binaries, but this in turn calls
adl> `strip' and not `foobar-strip' as expected.

Good catch.

adl> b) change the Makefiles to not call `install -s', but just 
adl>    `install' followed by a direct call to the correct strip.

This would make sense.  It is unfortunate though.

adl> c) don't use `make install-strip', but add a --enable-strip
adl>    option to configure that adds `-s' to LDFLAGS.

I'd rather not.

Tom