Comment 7 for bug 962997

OK, this doesn't work how I thought it did. Neither $CROSS nor $STRIP are special and don't relate to the STRIP=foo set in Makefile. autoconf got that right all by itself (presumably from --host). The issue is that debian/rules wants to be able to say 'use the STRIP defined in Makefile'. Is there a way to do that? It seems that this would be more robust than generating our own version of the same thing (as "$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-strip") . We get some of these variables: ($(MAKE), $(RM)), but not $(STRIP) .

I've just failed to find a neat way to extract this info that isn't uglier than just generating it again ourselves. Which seems a pity.

OK it all makes sense now anyway. As you were. I'll forward the bug to Debian.