Re: Installing on AIX fails

From: Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2010, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikbAShMuOvFra8bLT2PmU7s_iUQhr4RY7oD3LLa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> writes:
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 16:22, Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I'ill try compiling 'install' (i don't know where the sources are)
>>
>> It's in 'coreutils' these days, but that package includes a lot of stuff.
>>
>> Maybe you could get away with just using the script-version of install
>> which comes with coreutils itself (because it'll need an install tool
>> to use before 'install' itself is installed..).
>>
>> I'm attaching a copy. To use it it should be sufficient to use
>> INSTALL=path-to/install-sh make install
>> or something like that.
>
> I wonder if it would be better to simply include fallback portable
> install-sh in git sources.
>
> BTW. shouldn't we define and use INSTALL_D in Makefile?
>
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
> ShadeHawk on #git
>

I think so about the install-sh, but about the Makefiles I wonder if it's not better to reuse current INSTALL, maybe if install-sh is used, then there is no need for using other 'install' program, excepting the case in wich the user sets INSTALL commandline.

Blessing, Dario