Re: also copy install-sh

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ old thread about libtoolize copying install-sh ]
> 
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:44:38AM CET:
> 
>>Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>>
>>>Sounds good to me.  Maybe libtoolize should warn if install-sh is not 
>>>yet present (assuming it knows where it should be).
>>
>>It seems unobtrusive to copy libtool's install-sh into $datadir, and
>>have libtoolize suggest using $datadir/install-sh if none is present,
>>along with a caveat that automake will instead install the definitive
>>install-sh later in the bootstrap...
>>
>>HEAD can go further and actually perform the copy if automake doesn't
>>seem to be in use.
> 
> 
> How about these two patches, first against branch-1-5, second against
> branch-2-0?  (HEAD will follow later and be solved differently, as
> discussed above).
> 
> I acknowledge that a rewrite of the different methods to integrate (or
> not) Libtool into users' packages is still pending, but I do not have
> time for that now (patches welcome).

>       * libtoolize.in: Back out copying `install-sh' by libtoolize.
>       * doc/libtool.texi (Distributing): Mention that we distribute
>       `install-sh', but that non-Automake users will have to copy
>       it by themselves.

Since things have mostly worked for many years like this, in principal
there is no reason to worry about this at the moment.  However, it
certainly isn't difficult to fix the serial comparison functions in
libtoolize (branch-2-0 and HEAD) to only reinstall Automake owned files
if it has a newer version.

Feel free to commit, but please add a TODO entry to remind me to fix
this when I look at the serial comparison functions before 2.0.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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