Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Add checking for BSD-compatibile 'install' program

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Uncomment `AC_PROG_INSTALL' macro in configure.ac, and setting
> `INSTALL' variable in config.mak.in
>
> Add `install-sh' shell script (required when using `AC_PROG_INSTALL'
> macro) scriptversion=2005-11-07.23, taken from KDE SDK 3.5.3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Perhaps `install-sh' script should be replaced by something simplier,
> for example by script which was sent to git mailing list, but AFAIK
> not accepted.

That somehow sounds like whining.  I do not think it was never
proposed for inclusion but was just offered as a friendly
"somebody else might find it useful".

In any case, I have two issues, but one non-issue first.  I am
not opposed to including install-sh that is maintained somewhere
upstream and GPLv2 compatible.

 - I do not particularly like to have too many autoconf related
   cruft at the toplevel, and I am wondering if we can move it
   to say compat/install-sh.

 - I suspect this fall-back would set "INSTALL = ./install-sh"
   (if you have it in compat, "INSTALL = compat/install-sh").  I
   wonder if it breaks builds in subdirectories
   (i.e. Documentation/ and templates/).


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