diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 9f2b62c71a..1d12c7f3d4 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Jul 11 18:23:58 1992  John Gilmore  (gnu at cygnus.com)
+
+	* config/sun4sol2.mh:  Remove -xs flag, default INSTALL to cp.
+
 Fri Jul 10 13:58:34 1992  Per Bothner  (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
 
 	* gdbtypes.c, gdbtypes.h:  New function lookup_signed_typename.
diff --git a/gdb/config/sun4sol2.mh b/gdb/config/sun4sol2.mh
index d90e69564a..9ea2174e32 100644
--- a/gdb/config/sun4sol2.mh
+++ b/gdb/config/sun4sol2.mh
@@ -20,10 +20,15 @@ REGEX1=regex.o
 # new terminfo interface and latest terminal descriptions.
 TERMCAP=-ltermlib
 
-# SVR4 puts the BSD compatible install in /usr/ucb.
-INSTALL = /usr/ucb/install -c
+# Solaris-2 makes `install' optional in the Berkeley compatability pkg.
+# cp will do fine.
+INSTALL = cp
 
+# If you are compiling with Sun's compiler, add the -xs option to CC
+# (e.g. `make CC="cc -xs"').
 # Sun's compilers require the -xs option to produce debug information
 # in the final linked executable.  Otherwise they leave it in the .o
 # files only, with undocumented pointers to it in the linked executable.
-MH_CFLAGS=-xs
+# This is commented out because we don't assume that the Sun compiler
+# is in use.
+#MH_CFLAGS=-xs