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".
