bootstrap fails, can not find install-sh or install.sh in [...]

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199810031850.OAA05110@caip.rutgers.edu >you write:
  > 	I don't know if this has been reported before, but when I build
  > egcs on sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 or mips-sgi-irix6.2, I get the following
  > error:
  > 
  > configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..
  > make[1]: *** [configure-target-libf2c] Error 1
  > make[1]: Leaving directory `/a/caip/a47/u47/ghazi/gcc-testing/sunos-test/eg
  > cs-CV
  > S19981002'
  > make: *** [bootstrap] Error 1
  > 
  > 	This is happening because the test for install-sh in configure
  > looks in "$srcdir $srcdir/.. $srcdir/../.." but the location we are in
  > is three levels deep in e.g. sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4/pic/libf2c.
  > 
  > 	The directory checks in AC_PROG_INSTALL are probably hardcoded
  > in autoconf, so its probably easier to fix something locally.  Perhaps
  > adding symlinks from the currect directory to install-sh in the top
  > level directory would work.  However I'm not knowledgable enough in the
  > multilib stuff to hack this up right away.  Can someone help?
I think the easiest thing to do is punt away all the crap to find a suitable
install program and just use the (*@#$ shell script.  We've spent far more
time debugging problems with this crud over the years than has ever been saved.

To find the install program from a multilibdir you do something similar to
finding config-ml.in that's seen at the top of the configure.in files in 
libf2c and friends, except look for install-sh.

jeff