[PATCH] Use $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) consistently.
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 23:18:00 GMT 2013
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:13:39PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> When doing a cross-compile and 'make install-strip', it's necessary to
> prepend $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) to every invocation of $(INSTALL_PROGRAM)
> (or its libtool-wrapped equivalent). Otherwise you don't pass down the
> STRIPPROG setting that makes install-sh use the right strip command. The
> Automake-generated rules do this, but we unfortunately have several places
> where we've hand-copied and slightly tweaked those rules, and probably that
> was done before $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) was introduced.
>
> This fixes it in the straightforward way, though we're still subject to
> future bit rot. In future, probably the better solution is to nix the
> special rules and just let Automake handle all the binaries, using just:
>
> transform = s/-new$$//;$(program_transform_name)
>
> to make the standard rules handle the renaming.
>
> OK for trunk and 2.24?
Thanks! OK for trunk, Tristan has the say on the branch.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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