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Re: Depending on system install scripts (was Re: [BUGS] COBOL) (fwd)
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Peter Eisentraut |
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Re: Depending on system install scripts (was Re: [BUGS] COBOL) (fwd) |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:43:36 +0100 (CET) |
Akim Demaille writes:
> Peter> Hi, this came up in our project. Why, if a package is required
> Peter> to ship install-sh anyway, do we look for a system install
> Peter> program when this might just cause weird problems?
> The point being we are *falling* back to our version of the tools, but
> we always try to use what's available on the system. This is why we
> don't impose GNU fnmatch.c, regex.c, strftime.c etc. It's almost
> ideological, we are here to cure diseases, and sane bodies must not
> pay our portability tricks.
The problem with AC_PROG_INSTALL is that it doesn't actually test whether
the found program works.
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