From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:52:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] templates/Makefile: work around SGI install which assumes / if ROOT not defined
Message-ID: <FnxO7Orp3rSZw-HOO0O0Mr3CM46BkVX3CwFWT098m6GBmWq0jNk82A@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <7vhc9hlwt3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I do not see absolutely any reason to use install there.
> 
> I have to wonder why 9907721 (templates/Makefile: don't depend on local
> umask setting, 2008-02-28) did not do this instead:
> 
> 	$(QUIET)umask 022 && ls *--* 2>/dev/null | \
> 	while read boilerplate; \
> 	do \
> 		case "$$boilerplate" in *~) continue ;; esac && \
> 		dst=`echo "$$boilerplate" | sed -e 's|^this|.|;s|--|/|g'` && \
> 		dir=`expr "$$dst" : '\(.*\)/'` && \
> 		mkdir -p blt/$$dir && \
> 		case "$$boilerplate" in \
> 		*--) ;; \
> 		*) cp $$boilerplate blt/$$dst ;; \
> 		esac || exit; \
> 	done && \
> 	date >$@
> 

That works just fine for me.

-brandon