Hi Bagas,
On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 23/08/21 22.55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Perhaps. One bad thing with the current "strip" arrangement is that
> > it is done in the built directory, and because "make install" would
> > blindly install whatever in the built directory, if you truly care
> > that you install unstripped binaries, you need to see if they are
> > stripped and rebuild them as needed, because "make strip" may or may
> > not have been done. From that point of view, getting rid of the
> > current "make strip" and introducing either "make strip-installed"
> > ("we've installed things earlier---go strip them") or "make
> > install-stripped" ("we've built (or if we haven't please build them
> > first), now install them and strip them in the installed directory")
> > may make more sense. And for that, any idea that came up in this
> > discussion that relies on the current "strip" target would not help.
>
> But often the installed directory (install prefix) is owned by root,
> so one has to `sudo make install-strip`, right?
The default for `make install` goes to `$HOME`. I would wager a bet that
that's the common case, too. It does not require `sudo`.
Ciao,
Dscho
