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Re: [PATCH CVS] skip OS/2 system install
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: [PATCH CVS] skip OS/2 system install |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:09:05 +0200 |
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Peter> Akim Demaille writes:
>> 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).
Peter> Why bother? Since everyone is required to ship install-sh
Peter> anyway, why not use install-sh always?
Speed. install-sh is really slow.
Peter> We started doing that a while ago, and the number of
Peter> complaints has dropped to zero. install-sh also has the
Peter> advantage that no developer gets away with writing unportable
Peter> invocations of 'install'. Anyway, if someone is insisting on
Peter> their own magic install program, they can always run
Peter> 'configure INSTALL=/usr/bin/install'.
I agree. The whole point is also to get rid of mkinstalldirs, and to
be able to have a single invocation to install a bunch of files,
instead of one by one.
Automake people seem to have an additional constraint because, iirc,
of a target to create the dest dirs. I don't understand why this
target would exist, but this "justifies" mkinstalldirs.