On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:19:32PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
>On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 19:32 +0000, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
>> I wish someone heard you, Roy. install -D is used heavily by
>> buildroot, but I'm not so advanced in Makefiles to cope this by

Ahem, i fear that at least some of them were added by /me
Since install(1) is not in SUS, i was not aware that the -D is uncommon.

>> myself. And buildrooters seem to be quite happy with current state of
>> things. I have to spoil my build system with glibc and with upstream
>> install to move on.

I suppose that in the light of this alleged GNU "extension" ¹) buildroot
should use something different than -D per default, and ...

>> And what about some other GNU-isms that were successfully infiltrated
>> into BB? Simply, when coded, -D should be FEATUREd and should be
>> cleanly compilable-out.
>
>True enough I suppose

... implement a -D for install. I'll look into it as soon as time
permits.

Thanks for the heads up!
cheers,
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