[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] add --disable-stripping configure option

[Mike Frysinger]

On 5/7/07, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > this breaks things like cross-compiles as the strip that `install`
> > calls is never the right one.
>
> But MPlayer is just 2 binaries.  Why not just skip the "make install"
> step entirely?

... + man pages + fonts + skins + config files + ...

having a configure flag puts the logic in the right place: configure.
otherwise, users have to dig into the build system to see exactly what
they need and reproduce all of the cruft that's in the "install"
target.
-mike