Re: Depending on system install scripts (was Re: [BUGS] COBOL) (fwd)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> Peter> Hi, this came up in our project.  Why, if a package is required
> Peter> to ship install-sh anyway, do we look for a system install
> Peter> program when this might just cause weird problems?

> The point being we are *falling* back to our version of the tools, but
> we always try to use what's available on the system.  This is why we
> don't impose GNU fnmatch.c, regex.c, strftime.c etc.  It's almost
> ideological, we are here to cure diseases, and sane bodies must not
> pay our portability tricks.

The problem with AC_PROG_INSTALL is that it doesn't actually test whether
the found program works.

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