Subject: Re: subtle breakage
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/12/1997 18:56:10
>On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:49:55 -0800 
> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, but install just got changed to exec strip.
> > 
> > I suppose that install could be fixed too.
>
>Huh?  /usr/bin/strip or use "strip"?  I don't recall that it's ever
>used execlp(), just execl().
>
>I could be wrong, though...
>

src/usr.bin/xinstall/pathnames.h defines the default strip
program (_PATH_STRIP) as /usr/bin/strip. That is execl'd.
If the environment variable STRIP is set, this is used.