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Re: weird installation problem on i686-pc-linux-gnu
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:35, Martin Reinecke wrote:
> Unfortunately I have no way of finding out more about the local "install",
> as it doesn't accept the --help flag:
Did you check to see if it might be a shell script? If so, there might
be comments in it. If it isn't a shell script, then running "strings"
on it might give useful info. Also try options -v, --verbose, and
--version.
autoconf already has a number of checks for various known install
programs with various known bugs. If it can be identified, then
autoconf can be fixed to avoid use of it.
I don't see the install program in my out-dated copy of POSIX, but there
is a long history of UNIX systems having a program called install that
works the way gcc expects it to work. So I'm tempted to call it a bug
with your system, though I can't produce a convincing argument for
that. One could also perhaps call it a bug in autoconf that it doesn't
check for this and work around it.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com