Re: how to detect broken install-sh?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Robert Collins wrote:
> I suggest dropping install-sh completely except for the coreutils
> package. coreutils is very portable, so its not unreasonable to require
> that it is installed to locally build and install other packages.
> coreutils of course cannot depend on itself being installed. A more

This seems like a pretty unreasonable requirement to me.  The 
install-sh strategy has been working for quite a long time with hardly 
any complaint until today.

Bob
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