Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I found myself in a position to compile Git on Nexenta, and ran into > the incredibly smart Makefile logic to pick "ginstall" when `uname -s` > equals SunOS. Except that on GNU/*, it's install, not ginstall. > Would not it be time to completely use automake? First, you can use ./configure when installing git, but as a way to set Makefile variables rather than as a way to build Makefile. By decision autoconf is _optional_. Now autoconf macro AC_PROG_INSTALL requires to have ubstall-sh or install.sh fallback script version of install in sources. We need to have minimal version; it doesn't need to be insanely portable, just as portable as git would be enough. So if you are interested in ./configure detecting proper 'install' binary (or fallback to script), please propose (e.g. via patch) some install.sh to use. Second, you can always use INSTALL=install when compiling, or set it up in config.mak, the Makefile configuration file. -- Jakub Narebski 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
