From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jul 30 09:35:27 2003
Subject: Re: make install-strip is too agressive
From: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>
To: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:35:19 -0400 (EDT)

>On 25-Jul-2003, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
>
>| The command
>|     make install-strip
>| should not strip the link libraries on windows installs, only dll's and
>| exe's.

make install-strip also seems not to work on linux.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/oct2150/ --enable-static=no
--enable-shared=yes --disable-readline
$ make
$ make install-strip
$ /usr/local/oct2150/bin/octave
octave: error while loading shared libraries: libcruft.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
$ make install
$ /usr/local/oct2150/bin/octave
octave:1>
$ make install-strip
$ /usr/local/oct2150/bin/octave
octave:1>

I'm using debian stable on a PII-266.

Andy