On 25/10/12 13:22, Lex Trotman wrote: > On 25 October 2012 10:45, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Lex and other thread contributors >> >> I'm not an autoconf expert, install.sh was dropped back in August (see >> https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/cd07629fa7a53fb3). > > Hi Stuart, > > As I said on my comment on that thread, neither am I an autotools > expert, as demonstrated by my incorrect expectation that autotools > would behave reasonably and look for the install-sh it distributed :( > > I did a search on my development machine and there are 55 install-sh > copies on it, each project seems to have a copy, so pending advice > from someone with an autotools degree I guess we have to include it.
Ok, I've made a note in my AsciiDoc todo list to add the latest version of install-sh Cheers, Stuart > And whenever autoconf is upgraded I guess you are expected to notice > and have to check and include a new version, oh wait the users machine > has an old autoconf, sure hope its backward compatible </just one more > rant>. > > As you can probably tell, I don't like autotools, but I agree that it > is useful for users to have access to the familiar ./configure && make > && sudo make install incantation. > > Cheers > Lex > >> >> What is the best course in light of this discussion? >> >> BTW, I see I've got a lot of starred messages in my AsciiDoc mail folder >> which I must make time to deal with, this one just jumped the queue. >> > > Probably mostly my fault mentioning you in dispatches :) > >> >> Cheers, Stuart >> >> >> On 24/10/12 19:11, Lex Trotman wrote: >>> Hi Stuart, >>> >>> Was just installing asciidoc on a new machine from hg. Configure fails >>> with a message: >>> >>> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." >>> "./.." "./../.." >>> >>> This appears to be [expletive deleted] by the autotools [expletive >>> deleted] developers that now requires that script to be present even if >>> it isn't >>> used. >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Alternative-Programs >>> AC_PROG_INSTALL. >>> >>> Just touching install-sh was enough for it to work (it actually uses the >>> system install program, not the shell script) but as I read the link >>> above we are now required to include the install-sh distributed with >>> autoconf in the applications directory. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Lex >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "asciidoc" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "asciidoc" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
