Re: Libtool head test status

[Charles Wilson]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Now, in that test, the toplevel configure script chooses
> $top_srcdir/INSTALL (yes, the text file) as install script.  I suspect
> this is because you have /uhome/src/gnu/libtool-head in the $PATH, the
> beginning of testsuite.log reveals that.  Why is that, did you add that
> manually?

On MinGW (under MSYS, where '.' is in the default PATH) I've always 
found it necessary to explicitly specify INSTALL=/bin/install when 
configuring/making packages -- not just libtool, but almost any 
autotooled package.  Part of this is the '.'-in-path thing, coupled with 
the case-insensitive nature of the filesystem, plus the "look for either 
foo OR foo.exe in each DIR of $PATH, before going to next DIR" behavior. 
 The nuances are slightly different on cygwin and msys.

I've never had this happen on cygwin, though.

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Chuck