installation problem with egcs 970828 on alpha-dec-osf4.0

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <199708292218.WAA01257@d0sgif.fnal.gov>you write:
  > The problem is that the command configure picked to do the installations
  > was
  > 
  >   /bin/installbsd -c
  > 
  > However, by default, installbsd on dec unix will create the new file
  > owned by root.
Yes, this is highly bogus since none of the makefiles are designed to
set owner/group or mode during an install.

I can change autoconf to stop doing this; however it brings up the
issue about what happens when other folks update configure.in or
acconfig.h, rebuild the configure scripts and thus installbsd is
chosen again.

Almost makes me think we should put our version of autoconf out on
the ftp server to avoid this problem.

Thoughts?

jeff