Alexander Mai wrote:
>
> This week I fixed a problem with our CVSMake & related scripts.
> In a very rare attempt to start from a real clean tree as just from CVS
> I noticed that I get
>
> > automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
> > error while copying
> >
> > automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
> > error while copying
> >
> > automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
> > error while copying
>
> I can see this as well when just removing those 3 files and manually running
> automake. Despite the message the files are actually copied and in place
> afterwards.
>
> Do we have an expert here who can explain what's wrong here?
>
It's a bug in automake-1.4.
automake --add-missing --copy is broken. This has been fixed in
development versions of automake, but these are far from being ready
for realize.
For now, a work-around is not to use --copy or to ignore the error
message or to manually copy the relevant files to there locations.
Ralf
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