Re: Improve install -s

"Theo de Raadt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.tech
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:

> This might break the case where somebody sets STRIP to run a command
> that doesn't implement the "-o" option in a compatible manner.  I'd
> say you get to keep bboth pieces in that case.

State the requirement.

Index: install.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/xinstall/install.1,v
diff -u -p -u -r1.31 install.1
--- install.1   8 Feb 2019 12:53:44 -0000       1.31
+++ install.1   21 Aug 2026 18:44:10 -0000
@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ creates an empty file.
 .It Ev STRIP
 For an alternate
 .Xr strip 1
-program to run.
+program to run, which must support the
+.Fl o
+option.
 Default is
 .Pa /usr/bin/strip .
 .El
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