Re: 'make install' for C++ 1.x on Solaris

[Berin Lautenbach]

Scott,

First the good news.  I can reproduce your problem by removing install 
on a system here.

The bad news is that I have absolutely no idea why autoconf requires 
install-sh be in the src directory - it seem worse to use it rather than 
nothing!  The "standard" X11 install-sh script is fairly naieve.  It 
assumes "install filename to-filename".  It cannot take multiple files 
going to a single directory.

To make matters worse, when configure finds install on the path, it adds 
a fully pathed version to make files.  But when it finds install-sh in 
the current directory, it adds "./install-sh", which is why your system 
couldn't find it in all the subdirectories.  You can get around it by 
setting -srcdir="`pwd`", but that's annoying.

So no quick fix.  I'm going to have to play around to find something 
that works nicely.

If anyone knows of a nice BSD licensed install-sh script that we can 
simply include, that would be nice too :>.

Cheers,
        Berin
Scott Cantor wrote:

Make install works on the Solaris 2.8 system that we have access to, but 
I suspect that's because we have the GNU install (fileutils) on our
system.


Probably so. I'll give it a try myself with that package installed. As long
as there's a relatively reasonable way to get make install to work, I'm ok
with it.
-- Scott