Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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". Sorry, my mistake. I thought that the install-sh script was proposed as solution for platforms lacking install program... > 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. We can do this by adding AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(DIR) to configure.ac, where DIR would be for example 'compat/' or 'compat/autoconf/' > - 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/). Yes, it sets "INSTALL = ./install-sh -c". And it does make problems for e.g. 'make install-doc'. I don't know how this should be resolved... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html