sunos nay install nay ginstall nay

sunos nay install nay ginstall nay

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi,


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.
Would not it be time to completely use automake?

Re: sunos nay install nay ginstall nay

[Miklos Vajna]

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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 :)

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Re: sunos nay install nay ginstall nay

[Jakub Narebski]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> writes:

> 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.
> Would not it be time to completely use automake?

First, you can use ./configure when installing git, but as a way to
set Makefile variables rather than as a way to build Makefile.  By
decision autoconf is _optional_.

Now autoconf macro AC_PROG_INSTALL requires to have ubstall-sh or
install.sh fallback script version of install in sources.  We need to
have minimal version; it doesn't need to be insanely portable, just as
portable as git would be enough.  So if you are interested in
./configure detecting proper 'install' binary (or fallback to script),
please propose (e.g. via patch) some install.sh to use.


Second, you can always use INSTALL=install when compiling, or set it
up in config.mak, the Makefile configuration file.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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