[PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-05 Thread Jani Nikula
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012, Blake Jones wrote: >> > +INSTALL="install" >> > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... " >> > +mkdir _tmp_ >> >> This doesn't feel like a hot idea. > > Out of curiosity, why not? Note that I'm only referring to creating temp directories like this to check for t

Re: [PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-05 Thread Blake Jones
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012, Blake Jones wrote: > >> > +INSTALL="install" > >> > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... " > >> > +mkdir _tmp_ > >> > >> This doesn't feel like a hot idea. > > > > Out of curiosity, why not? > > Note that I'm only referring to creating temp directories like

[PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-05 Thread Blake Jones
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012, Blake Jones wrote: > >> > +INSTALL="install" > >> > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... " > >> > +mkdir _tmp_ > >> > >> This doesn't feel like a hot idea. > > > > Out of curiosity, why not? > > Note that I'm only referring to creating temp directories like

Re: [PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-05 Thread Jani Nikula
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012, Blake Jones wrote: >> > +INSTALL="install" >> > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... " >> > +mkdir _tmp_ >> >> This doesn't feel like a hot idea. > > Out of curiosity, why not? Note that I'm only referring to creating temp directories like this to check for t

[PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-04 Thread Jani Nikula
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

Re: [PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-04 Thread Blake Jones
> > +INSTALL="install" > > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... " > > +mkdir _tmp_ > > This doesn't feel like a hot idea. Out of curiosity, why not? An "install" that behaves as expected is one of the first things that an autoconf-generated "configure" looks for. Now, autoconf-c

[PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-04 Thread Blake Jones
> > +INSTALL="install" > > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... " > > +mkdir _tmp_ > > This doesn't feel like a hot idea. Out of curiosity, why not? An "install" that behaves as expected is one of the first things that an autoconf-generated "configure" looks for. Now, autoconf-c

Re: [PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-04 Thread Jani Nikula
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

[PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-04 Thread Blake Jones
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

[PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)

2012-11-03 Thread Blake Jones
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