On Sun, 04 Nov 2012, Blake Jones wrote:
> Solaris ships a program called "install" in /usr/sbin, which performs a
> task that's fairly similar to the GNU and BSD "install" programs but
> which uses very different command line arguments. In particular, if it
> is invoked without "-c", "-f", or "-n", it will search the target
> directory for a file with the same name as the one being installed, and
> it will only install the file if it finds a matching name. More
> excitingly, if it doesn't find a match, it will look in /bin, /usr/bin,
> /etc, /lib, and /usr/lib and try to do the same there.
>
> The standard workaround for this is to use GNU install.
> It is available via the standard Solaris packaging system (in
> "file/gnu-coreutils"), and installs itself as /usr/bin/ginstall.
>
> This patch adds a check to "configure" to see if "install" behaves in a
> way that's compatible with GNU and BSD install, and if not, it uses a
> program called "ginstall" instead. It also modifies "configure" to set
> the $(INSTALL) variable, and changes various Makefiles to use it.
> ---
> Makefile.local|2 +-
> completion/Makefile.local |4 ++--
> configure | 19 +++
> emacs/Makefile.local |6 +++---
> lib/Makefile.local|4 ++--
> man/Makefile.local|6 +++---
> vim/Makefile |6 ++
> 7 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local
> index 2b91946..7ccb1cd 100644
> --- a/Makefile.local
> +++ b/Makefile.local
> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ notmuch-shared: $(notmuch_client_modules)
> lib/$(LINKER_NAME)
> .PHONY: install
> install: all install-man
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/bin/"
> - install notmuch-shared "$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/bin/notmuch"
> + $(INSTALL) notmuch-shared "$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/bin/notmuch"
> ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS), install)
> @echo ""
> @echo "Notmuch is now installed to $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)"
> diff --git a/completion/Makefile.local b/completion/Makefile.local
> index dfc1271..a648a78 100644
> --- a/completion/Makefile.local
> +++ b/completion/Makefile.local
> @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ install-$(dir):
> @echo $@
> ifeq ($(WITH_BASH),1)
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(bash_completion_dir)"
> - install -m0644 $(bash_script) "$(DESTDIR)$(bash_completion_dir)/notmuch"
> + $(INSTALL) -m0644 $(bash_script)
> "$(DESTDIR)$(bash_completion_dir)/notmuch"
> endif
> ifeq ($(WITH_ZSH),1)
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(zsh_completion_dir)"
> - install -m0644 $(zsh_script) "$(DESTDIR)$(zsh_completion_dir)/_notmuch"
> + $(INSTALL) -m0644 $(zsh_script)
> "$(DESTDIR)$(zsh_completion_dir)/_notmuch"
> endif
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 5c5139f..dae837e 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -591,6 +591,21 @@ for flag in -Wmissing-declarations; do
> done
> printf "\n\t${WARN_CFLAGS}\n"
>
> +INSTALL="install"
> +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... "
> +mkdir _tmp_
This doesn't feel like a hot idea. Don't tell me you'd need to create a
compatibility script for using mktemp --tmpdir too...
Or how about just always using ginstall on Solaris?
BR,
Jani.
> +cd _tmp_
> +echo 1 > 1
> +mkdir dest
> +if install 1 dest > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> + printf "\"install\" works fine.\n"
> +else
> + INSTALL="ginstall"
> + printf "using \"ginstall\".\n"
> +fi
> +cd ..
> +rm -rf _tmp_
> +
> rm -f minimal minimal.c
>
> cat < @@ -777,4 +792,8 @@ CONFIGURE_CXXFLAGS = -DHAVE_GETLINE=\$(HAVE_GETLINE)
> \$(GMIME_CFLAGS)\\
>-DSTD_ASCTIME=\$(STD_ASCTIME)
> CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS = \$(GMIME_LDFLAGS) \$(TALLOC_LDFLAGS) \$(XAPIAN_LDFLAGS)
> \\
>\$(LIBNSL_LDFLAGS)
> +
> +# Which "install" program to use
> +INSTALL = ${INSTALL}
> +
> EOF
> diff --git a/emacs/Makefile.local b/emacs/Makefile.local
> index fb82247..ee778cb 100644
> --- a/emacs/Makefile.local
> +++ b/emacs/Makefile.local
> @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ endif
> .PHONY: install-emacs
> install-emacs:
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(emacslispdir)"
> - install -m0644 $(emacs_sources) "$(DESTDIR)$(emacslispdir)"
> + $(INSTALL) -m0644 $(emacs_sources) "$(DESTDIR)$(emacslispdir)"
> ifeq ($(HAVE_EMACS),1)
> - install -m0644 $(emacs_bytecode) "$(DESTDIR)$(emacslispdir)"
> + $(INSTALL) -m0644 $(emacs_bytecode) "$(DESTDIR)$(emacslispdir)"
> endif
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(emacsetcdir)"
> - install -m0644 $(emacs_images) "$(DESTDIR)$(emacsetcdir)"
> + $(INSTALL) -m0644 $(emacs_images) "$(DESTDIR)$(emacsetcdir)"
>
> CLEAN := $(CLEAN) $(emacs_bytecode)
> diff --git a/lib/Makefile.local b/lib/Makefile.local
> index 7785944..0c6b258 100644
> --- a/lib/Makefile.local
> +++ b/lib/Makefile.local
> @@ -89,11 +89,11 @@ install: install-$(dir)
>
> install-$(dir): $(dir)/$(LIBNAME)
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/"
> - install -m0644 "$(lib)/$(LIBNAME)" "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/"
> + $