>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej W Rozycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Maciej> I'm doing cross-compiles regularly and I've never had a
Maciej> problem with `make install-strip' using install from
Maciej> fileutils. The point is cross-tools, strip included, get
Maciej> installed in ${prefix}/${target_alias}/bin, aka tooldir. It's
Maciej> desireable to have the tooldir early in the PATH environment
Maciej> variable during builds as not all programs make use of
Maciej> autoconf and it's not always easy to override names of all
Maciej> cross-tools used during builds.
This is possible, but we don't recommend it. Instead we try to
approach cross builds the "autoconf way": we assume that configure
will use things like AC_CHECK_TOOL, etc.
Maciej> Wouldn't it be feasible to build a sample program and check
Maciej> if it can be installed with stripping by install at the
Maciej> configuration stage? I might cook a patch if so.
Post-1.5 we are just going to use AC_CHECK_TOOL(STRIP, strip). Before
that we rely on the configure.in writer -- because with autoconf 2.13
that person is responsible for using AC_CHECK_TOOL when appropriate.
Tom