Re: make install-strip is too agressive

[Andy Adler]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 30-Jul-2003, Andy Adler <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | >On 25-Jul-2003, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
> | >
> | >| The command
> | >|     make install-strip
> | >| should not strip the link libraries on windows installs, only dll's and
> | >| exe's.
> |
> | make install-strip also seems not to work on linux.
> |
> | $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/oct2150/ --enable-static=no
> | --enable-shared=yes --disable-readline
> | $ make
> | $ make install-strip
> | $ /usr/local/oct2150/bin/octave
> | octave: error while loading shared libraries: libcruft.so: cannot open
> | shared object file: No such file or directory
> | $ make install
> | $ /usr/local/oct2150/bin/octave
> | octave:1>
> | $ make install-strip
> | $ /usr/local/oct2150/bin/octave
> | octave:1>
> |
> | I'm using debian stable on a PII-266.
>
> OK, then can someone who cares about install-strip debug this and
> submit a patch?  (I don't care whether install-strip works because I
> wouldn't want to install Octave without debugging symbols.)

The following patch solves the problem for me (for 2.1.50
on Mandrake 9.1). Sorry it took me so long to get around to it.

andy

*** libcruft/Makerules.in.orig  2003-10-05 18:44:13.000000000 -0400
--- libcruft/Makerules.in       2003-10-05 18:44:27.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 64,69 ****
--- 64,72 ----
  install:: all
  .PHONY: install

+ install-strip:: all
+ .PHONY: install
+
  uninstall::
  .PHONY: uninstall