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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 1995 11:32:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        joerg@freefall.cdrom.com (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-usrbin@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xinstall xinstall.c
Message-ID:  <199508041832.LAA01716@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508041713.KAA22437@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Joerg Wunsch" at Aug 4, 95 10:13:37 am

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> joerg       95/08/04 10:13:37
> 
>   Modified:    usr.bin/xinstall  xinstall.c
>   Log:
>   Make install not remove the target file if -s has been specified but
>   stripping failed (since the file has been a shell script, for
>   example).

Ignoring error conditions from strip is not a good idea.  Using -s option
to install non binary files is a usage error.  

Removing the file if strip failed is probably not the right thing to
do, but being silent about strip errors is not a good idea.

>   Closes PR # bin/645: "install -c -s" can't inst...
>   
>   Submitted by:	hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
> 


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