[ On Tuesday, June 6, 2000 at 18:09:13 (+0200), Peter Eisentraut wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: proposed change to setting of INSTALL (and friends)....
>
> Greg A. Woods writes:
>
> > It turns out that some versions of *BSD "install" (aka xinstall.c in the
> > 4.4bsd distribution) don't allow '-c' and '-d' at the same time (and
> > strictly speaking none should).
>
> > Of course this crops up because some authors using Autoconf (and
> > Automake) have the (good, in my opinion) habit of using "install -d" to
> > create new directories (instead of 'mkdir').
>
> The infinitely better habit (at least in the current setup) is to use
> mkinstalldirs. I also have a macro that detects whether mkdir -p or
> install -d works and falls back to mkinstalldirs only when necessary. In
> case someone's interested.
I agree, but it'll be "hard" to change these habits in other developers! ;-)
(especially when it works jsut fine with the version of "install" the
developer happens to test on)
--
Greg A. Woods
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