[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: how to detect broken install-sh?
From: |
Russ Allbery |
Subject: |
Re: how to detect broken install-sh? |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:10:52 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Brian Gough <address@hidden> writes:
> Maybe it would be good to have a check for problems with install-sh.
> I can see a couple of ways this could be done:
> - make distcheck could (i) use install-sh and (ii) independently
> check that all files which are supposed to be installed actually
> do get installed.
The various supporting files that Automake includes in the distribution
package, including install-sh, do all generally have version numbers in
some form. Maybe distcheck should just directly check that the included
files have sufficiently recent versions? I know that version checks
normally go against the philosophy of the Autotools, but in this case
they're files shipped by Automake itself, and it might be the easiest
path.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>