[RFC] installing stripped libraries

[René Ladan]

2010/8/14 Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com>:
> René Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was thinking about adding a INSTALL_LIBRARY target to bsd.port.mk
>> to strip and install libraries. Currently manually installing libraries is
>> done with INSTALL_DATA,
>> but this does not strip them. It would save
>> some bytes in the resulting package, but also take more CPU time.
>
> Why not use INSTALL_PROGRAM for libraries?
>
INSTALL_PROGRAM sets the executable flag (typically 0755) which libraries
don't need.

Rene