Re: configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.."

2020-07-30 Thread Nick Bowler
On 25/07/2020, TomK wrote: > Out of curiosity and a bit on another topic. Is the syntax written > like this for compatibility reasons with other shells? Or because it > could get in the way of the parsers Automake uses? Autoconf is primarily a portability tool and thus a key goal is for generat

Re: configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.."

2020-07-30 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Tom, Using this: As shown in the Texinfo example, I think the order of the init and config macros is important. Admittedly this is not clearly documented. AC_INIT([... AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([... AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([... AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([... AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([... Some variations are possible,