On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:07:53AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> 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 :)