# sunos nay install nay ginstall nay 3 messages from 2008-04-05 to 2008-04-05. Participants: Jan Engelhardt, Miklos Vajna, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12991 ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-04-05 05:07 Subject: sunos nay install nay ginstall nay Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LNX.1.10.0804050653570.14919%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr ``` Hi, I found myself in a position to compile Git on Nexenta, and ran into the incredibly smart Makefile logic to pick "ginstall" when `uname -s` equals SunOS. Except that on GNU/*, it's install, not ginstall. Would not it be time to completely use automake? ``` ## Miklos Vajna, 2008-04-05 11:53 Subject: Re: sunos nay install nay ginstall nay Message-ID: <20080405115303.GV11574@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080405115303.GV11574%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:07:53AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I found myself in a position to compile Git on Nexenta, and ran into the > incredibly smart Makefile logic to pick "ginstall" when `uname -s` equals > SunOS. Except that on GNU/*, it's install, not ginstall. afaik, GNU/* has ginstall as well. at least this is what i have here: $ ls -l `which ginstall` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 9 23:10 /usr/bin/ginstall -> install* > Would not it be time to completely use automake? or maybe time to fix your system :) ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-04-05 12:08 Subject: Re: sunos nay install nay ginstall nay Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3lk3stsfh.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` Jan Engelhardt writes: > I found myself in a position to compile Git on Nexenta, and ran into > the incredibly smart Makefile logic to pick "ginstall" when `uname -s` > equals SunOS. Except that on GNU/*, it's install, not ginstall. > Would not it be time to completely use automake? First, you can use ./configure when installing git, but as a way to set Makefile variables rather than as a way to build Makefile. By decision autoconf is _optional_. Now autoconf macro AC_PROG_INSTALL requires to have ubstall-sh or install.sh fallback script version of install in sources. We need to have minimal version; it doesn't need to be insanely portable, just as portable as git would be enough. So if you are interested in ./configure detecting proper 'install' binary (or fallback to script), please propose (e.g. via patch) some install.sh to use. Second, you can always use INSTALL=install when compiling, or set it up in config.mak, the Makefile configuration file. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ```