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Re: how to detect broken install-sh?
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: how to detect broken install-sh? |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:46:08 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-09) |
* Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:13:48PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> What would be the best way? Do you think this might cause other
> >>> problems?
> >> I suggest dropping install-sh completely except for the coreutils
> >> package.
> >
> > Expecting GNU coreutils to be installed on each system is unreasonable.
> > Other systems have quite well-functioning tools, too. Autotools
> > generally strive to produce packages that work well on all kinds of
> > Posix and almost-Posix systems.
> So I don't expect coreutils to be installed; I'm saying *packages other
> than coreutils* should *depend on a working /usr/bin/install*.
>
> Thats quite a different thing :)
Right; and sorry for mixing that up. However, I still consider that
unreasonable. install-sh is selected on several systems, including,
if I remember correctly, AIX, IRIX, Tru64, and Solaris (my access to
these systems is down ATM). None of these can be expected to fix their
/usr/bin/install any time soon, esp. since install is not standardized
in any way. Also, some systems are known to use an old version of the
install-sh script as install program, which doesn't support multi-file
install.
Contrast that with us supplying a replacement script: that's easy,
rather lightweight in additional file size, maybe not in execution time
on systems where install-sh is selected.
I still don't see any valid reason to drop install-sh completely, esp.
not since the original bug report wasn't about our install-sh, but only
an old version of it.
Cheers,
Ralf
- how to detect broken install-sh?, Brian Gough, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Russ Allbery, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Robert Collins, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Robert Collins, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Robert Collins, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Robert Collins, 2009/09/27
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/09/28
- Re: how to detect broken install-sh?, Robert Collins, 2009/09/28