Peter> Akim Demaille writes: >> In the long term, I think that a complete rewrite of this macro would >> be most useful (i.e., actually checking the features we want, instead >> of this hardwired list of names).
Peter> Why bother? Since everyone is required to ship install-sh Peter> anyway, why not use install-sh always? Speed. install-sh is really slow. Peter> We started doing that a while ago, and the number of Peter> complaints has dropped to zero. install-sh also has the Peter> advantage that no developer gets away with writing unportable Peter> invocations of 'install'. Anyway, if someone is insisting on Peter> their own magic install program, they can always run Peter> 'configure INSTALL=/usr/bin/install'. I agree. The whole point is also to get rid of mkinstalldirs, and to be able to have a single invocation to install a bunch of files, instead of one by one. Automake people seem to have an additional constraint because, iirc, of a target to create the dest dirs. I don't understand why this target would exist, but this "justifies" mkinstalldirs.
