Re: [PATCH CVS] skip OS/2 system install

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> | --- ./lib/autoconf/programs.m4-pre  Thu Oct 31 05:15:02 2002
> | +++ ./lib/autoconf/programs.m4      Thu Jan 30 15:22:24 2003
> | @@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_INSTALL],
> |  # AIX 4 /usr/bin/installbsd, which doesn't work without a -g flag
> |  # AFS /usr/afsws/bin/install, which mishandles nonexistent args
> |  # SVR4 /usr/ucb/install, which tries to use the nonexistent group "staff"
> | +# OS/2's system install, which has a completely different semantic
> |  # ./install, which can be erroneously created by make from ./install.sh.
> |  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for a BSD-compatible install])
> |  if test -z "$INSTALL"; then
> | @@ -316,6 +317,7 @@ AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_path_install,
> |  case $as_dir/ in
> |    ./ | .// | /[cC]/* | \
> |    /etc/* | /usr/sbin/* | /usr/etc/* | /sbin/* | /usr/afsws/bin/* | \
> | +  |?:[\\/]os2[\\/]install[\\/]* | ?:[\\/]OS2[\\/]INSTALL[\\/]* | \
> |    /usr/ucb/* ) ;;
> |    *)
> |      # OSF1 and SCO ODT 3.0 have their own names for install.
> | 
> 
> Fine.  Please, provide a version with a ChangeLog, and then apply it.

"Apply it"?  I do not follow.

> In the long term, I think that a complete rewrite of this macro would
> be most useful (i.e., actually checking the features we want, instead
> of this hardwired list of names).

Do not think this will work.  E.g., \os2\install\install.exe may (I do
not remember the details) start a GUI for installation of OS extensions...

Yours,
Ilya