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Re: final install problems
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Subject: Re: final install problems
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:27:17 -0500
- cc: zack at codesourcery dot com (Zack Weinberg), david_fly113 at yahoo dot com (David), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Joe Buck writes:
Joe> Then why does configure decide to use it? I recall many pieces of GNU
Joe> software had a configure that found an "install" program on my Solaris
Joe> system, tested it, didn't like it, and used a shell script included
Joe> with the distribution instead.
If you look at configure, it specifically avoids "install" on
particular systems even when it finds it. It does not test if "install"
actually works, it simply is hardwired to avoid some systems.
David