Re: [HACKERS] install-strip causes dyld errors on OS X

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Meredith L. Patterson" <mlp(at)osogato(dot)com> writes:
> > In brief, when installing on OS X with "make install-strip",
> > installation goes fine, but initdb dies here:
> > ...
> > I see three possible fixes:
> > 1) Patch config/install-sh such that on OS X, install-strip calls 'strip
> > -x'. This removes local symbols only.
>
> +1 on this one --- seems about the right level of effort, considering
> that install-strip isn't exactly an encouraged option anyway. (Does
> anyone still care about the amount of disk space involved? And it makes
> debugging problems infinitely harder.)
>
> Just for the record, I'd like to put forward the alternative solution
> of removing support for install-strip. But assuming there are
> objections to that, please send in the mentioned 4-line patch ...

I have developed the attached patch to implement this.

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