I'm not sure of the purpose of some of those, but most of them are only used during the build process. They are not needed afterward. Read the script headers (the comments at the top of each script) to find out their specific purposes.
For example: config.guess: guess certain configuration parameters, for the ./ configure command. mkinstalldirs: make any missing directories during installation missing: work around missing utilities by reimplementing the necessary functionality Chris Buxton Professional Services Men & Mice On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Mwanguhya Daniel Murungi wrote: > > The automake package builds successfully but after doing a make > install, only > the following binaries are installed; aclocal, aclocal-1.10, automake, > automake-1.10. > > The following scripts ie acinstall, compile, config.guess, > config.sub, > depcomp, elisp-comp, gnupload, install-sh, mdate-sh, missing, > mkinstalldirs > py-compile, symlink-tree and ylwrap exist (under automake-1.10.1/ > lib ) but > are not installed. > > I can copy the missing scripts to usr/bin but I wanted to find out > why they > are not installed and if everyone is copying them manually > > Daniel > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
