Re: [PATCH 1/2] make: add install-stripped target

On 27/08/21 03.08, Junio C Hamano wrote:

It also depends on "strip" not to break handlinks to the same
binary.  "git" is linked to many built-in command binary like
"git-cat-file" and "git-remote-$curl" for various protocols are
installed by creating links to "git-remote-http".  It seems that the
"strip" command from GNU binutils package strips such a binary
in-place, but I do not think there is no fundamental reason to
believe that everybody else's "strip" would behave that way.

Maybe hardlinks?

I would have expected that 'install-stripped' and 'install' targets
would run the same recipe, and when $(install_bindir_programs) are
installed in $(bindir) using $(INSTALL), we would optionally pass
the '--strip' option to the $(INSTALL) program when the recipe is
run for the install-stripped target.  All the tricky symlinking,
hardlinking and copying happens only on the result of that step, and
the strip step should happen before that, I would think.

Did you mean copying recipe of 'install' to 'install-stripped' and the 
latter s/$(INSTALL)/$(INSTALL -s --strip-program="$(STRIP)"/)?

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