DBUS build: make install does not run strip on the libs

Mandeep Sandhu mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 06:53:33 PDT 2010


> That's standard for automake. From the GNU Coding Standards:
>
>    Do not strip executables when installing them. Devil-may-care users can
>    use the install-strip target to do that.

Ok. I didn't know that. Thanks for this info.
>
>
>> libtool: install: /bin/bash /home/mandeep/work/dbus/install-sh -c -s
>> dbus-daemon /tmp/apr-dbus/bin/dbus-daemon
>> strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file
>> `/tmp/apr-dbus/bin/_inst.18797_'
>
> Your strip(1) binary is unable to recognise the format of the input file?
> You might want to start by investigating that :-)

Well, here's the catch...this file is not present at the said
location!! :) Looks like something that's created in the
'install-strip' step (though seems unlikely).

Will check again.

Thanks,
-mandeep

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>    S
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