Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On 28 May 2001, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> Although i initially suggested it, there is another
> install-strip approach that we completly forgot: install
> binaries using the system's install, and strip them afterward.

 I haven't forgotten, actually.  I just consider it unsafe.  What if
INSTALL_PROGRAM='$INSTALL -m111' (and you are not root)? 

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