[tlbuild] linked scripts when script names only differ by their extensions

[Karl Berry]

Hi Robert,

    preparing an update utility from scripts.lst 

The purpose of scripts.lst is to list all the user-level scripts, i.e.,
non-compiled executables that are distributed in Master/bin/whatever.

(I admit I don't really understand what distros do with scripts.lst, but
I gather they do something. :)

    would have been to strip all the executables except the duplicates

You mean, strip as in strip(1)?

    which differ only by their extensions.  But would it have been
    advisable?

I don't understand, but it doesn't seem like it. 

You can get stripped binaries if you run make install-strip from the top
level. Or cd to the bindir and strip * 2>/dev/null. strip won't do any
harm to non-binaries, unless it is massively broken. (I've never heard of
any problems along those lines, at least.)

Let me know if questions/problems ... -k