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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, felipe.contreras@gmail•com,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>,
	"Emily Shaffer" <emilyshaffer@google•com>,
	"Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail•com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco•com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] make: add install-stripped target
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:08:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8s0odl5l.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210826113824.50078-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com> (Bagas Sanjaya's message of "Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:38:23 +0700")

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail•com> writes:

> +install-stripped: install
> +	for f in $(PROGRAMS) git$X; do \
> +		find $$prefix -type f -name $$f -exec $(STRIP) $(STRIP_OPTS) {} \; ; \
> +	done
> +

This sounds awfully wasteful.

The recipe for the install target knows exactly each of these
programs are installed, but yet the above is running around inside
$prefix to find them after the fact.

It also looks incorrect, too.

It is not guaranteed that $prefix does not contain any $IFS
whitespace in it, and worse yet, $prefix may not contain $bindir or
$libexecdir in it, so find may never reach these binaries.

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.

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.

> +.PHONY: install-gitweb install-doc install-man install-man-perl install-html install-info install-pdf install-stripped

Split the overly long line like this into two or more.

>  .PHONY: quick-install-doc quick-install-man quick-install-html
>  install-gitweb:
>  	$(MAKE) -C gitweb install

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-26 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 11:38 [PATCH 0/2] make: install stripped Git Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-26 11:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] make: add install-stripped target Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-26 20:08   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-08-27  7:57     ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-27 12:41       ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-08-26 11:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] make: delete strip target Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-26 19:36   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 20:10   ` Junio C Hamano

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