Re: make install-strip in cross-compilation environments

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 17, 2001, Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:

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.

We could surely adjust install-sh so as to take a STRIP variable into
account, and set INSTALL_STRIP (a new variable, set to the same as
`$(INSTALL)' if not cross-compiling, or to `STRIP=toolchain-strip
$(CONFIG_SHELL) /path/to/install-sh' otherwise) in the configure
script.

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