Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] patches for make targets solaris-package and svr4-package

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:26:41 -0800
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:01:24PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> I've checked in the mkpkg and checkinstall.in patches; I'll see if
> there's a way to get install-strip not to try to strip scripts
> (hopefully they didn't just decide "GNU strip is smart enough not to
> strip non-executable non-object files, what's the problem?").

I suspect automake 1.4b and later versions (and possibly automake 1.4a)
may have fixed that bug - the bug is that INSTALL_SCRIPT and
INSTALL_PROGRAM both include $(AM_INSTALL_PROGRAM_FLAGS), which "make
install-strip" sets to "-s".