Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

Tom> Another little secret like this in the standards is the
Tom> `install-strip' argument.  That was Richard's response to a suggestion
Tom> from François.  Unfortunately Richard ignored existing practice and
Tom> instead added a new target which turned out to be surprisingly hard to
Tom> implement correctly.

Miles> What's `existing practice'?

Setting INSTALL_PROGRAM to `install -s' and having a separate
INSTALL_SCRIPT variable.  This predates install-strip by a couple
years, and was in use by some GNU hackers.  Automake had already
implemented it for that long, too.  (It is still in there, too.)

Tom