Hi Thomas, * Thomas Schwinge wrote on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:12:49PM CEST: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:23:15PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > > I installed the following to Automake install-sh to implement > > "install-sh -C", which is the second part of that patch.
> However now there is another issue, see this snippet: > /bin/bash [...]/build-aux/install-sh -C -m 644 > 'libhurd-ihash-nomalloc.a' > '[...]/libhurd-ihash.kernel.build.install//lib/libhurd-ihash-nomalloc.a' > i686-pc-viengoos-gnu-ranlib > '[...]/libhurd-ihash.kernel.build.install//lib/libhurd-ihash-nomalloc.a' > > I'm using the `-C' option -- but that doesn't help much if Automake > decides to have ranlib tinker with the files afterwards again. Should > this be changed in Automake: to first run ranlib (or whatever else might > be done) on them and then install them? Some systems need a ranlib rerun upon installation. I suppose we could have a INSTALL_RANLIB which gets set to ':' on all systems that don't need it. Thanks, Ralf
