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Re: also copy install-sh
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: also copy install-sh |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:27:40 +0100 |
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* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:07:49PM CET:
> >>> "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.
Bummer.
> 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.
Probably. But let's ask the question the other way round: What could
be broken if libtoolize did not install any of these?
Next question: How does libtoolize reliably detect whether Automake is
used (I can guess the answer, but am not certain)?
Another one: Can we expect forward-compatibility (in the sense that
the newest available script will always be the best)?
Regards,
Ralf
- also copy install-sh, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/12/19
- Re: also copy install-sh, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/12/19
- Re: also copy install-sh, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/12/20
- Re: also copy install-sh, Ross Boylan, 2004/12/20
- Re: also copy install-sh, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/12/20
- Re: also copy install-sh,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: also copy install-sh, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/12/21
- Re: also copy install-sh, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/12/22
- Re: also copy install-sh, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/12/23
- Re: also copy install-sh, Ross Boylan, 2004/12/23
- Re: also copy install-sh, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/12/24
Re: also copy install-sh, Ross Boylan, 2004/12/19