diff -uprk.orig coreutils-5.2.0.orig/src/install.c coreutils-5.2.0/src/install.c

--- coreutils-5.2.0.orig/src/install.c	2004-02-07 18:41:12 +0300

+++ coreutils-5.2.0/src/install.c	2004-02-24 16:54:15 +0300

@@ -531,7 +531,8 @@ strip (const char *path)

       while (pid != wait (&status))	/* Wait for kid to finish. */

 	/* Do nothing. */ ;

       if (status)

-	error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("strip failed"));

+	/* We don't want to produce a fatal error just because strip failed. */

+	error (EXIT_SUCCESS, 0, _("strip failed"));

       break;

     }

 }