Re: also copy install-sh

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

 Ralf> Only if Libtool and Automake would carry different,
 Ralf> incompatible versions of the script.

The difference will easily happen since install-sh still changes
(8 changes just this year).  A similar problem occurred when
gettextize started to install `mkinstalldir': people who kept
`mkinstalldir' in CVS started to complain about the spurious
changes to that file, caused by running one tool or the other.  

It is also possible that the HEAD version of install-sh (the one
you are wgetting) is different from that from the stable branch
(the one that is released).  This is not the case right now, but
it has been the case in the past.

The incompatibilities could also happen.  For instance
Makefile.ins produced by Automake >= 1.8 rely on the way the -d
option has been changed to work in install-sh.

 Ralf> Fortunately, it is pretty stable and mature, so we won't
 Ralf> have to worry much about this.  With config.guess and
 Ralf> config.sub, things have worked fine so far as well
 Ralf> (AFAIK), and they tend to change much more often.

Would it make sense if libtoolize did not install any of these
scripts when Automake is used?  That way there is always only
one tool installing them in a given setup.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz