> Atleast on 6.5, this is because the native strip binary does not allow stripping of libraries without a force flag (AFAIR), adding this to the
> proper place in install-sh will make it work. Perhaps something for bootstrap.

which is that force flag on IRIX 6.5? On 5.3 at least the man page does not
give a hint.

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