[Bug-gsl] autogen.sh overwrites file INSTALL

[Peter Johansson]

Hi,

I noticed that when I run `./autogen.sh' it will run delete the file 
`INSTALL' and instead create a link to 
`/usr/local/share/automake-1.11/INSTALL'. This is because automake is 
run with '--foce-missing'. If I instead run 'autoreconf -ivf' as 
recommended by autogen.sh, the same thing happens: the INSTALL file is 
replaced by a link to...

I understand the --force option is desired in order to avoid missing 
upgrades of other automake provided files such as the script missing. On 
the other hand, the current behavior is a bit annoying as it took me 
some time to get back the INSTALL file (not very familiar with git:( ), 
and I figure the risk that the generic FSF INSTALL goes into a release 
tarball rather than GSL's INSTALL is quite significant.

AFAIK there is no option in Automake to '--install' only some files and 
not, e.g., `INSTALL'. The simplest solution, IMVHO, would be to rename 
the file INSTALL and distribute both this renamed file together with the 
generic INSTALL. But it's likely that the Automake people have a better 
solution.

Thanks,
Peter

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Peter Johansson

svndigest maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/svndigest
yat maintainer,       http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat