Re: Installing on AIX fails

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2010, 11:44 UTC
Message-ID: <m3631xr9bm.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilnFXUI9hnVJlAylCzTUqOStZAFvtgvNrh8Kisj@mail.gmail.com>

Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 16:22, Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > 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?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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