Hello Sasha,
please keep bug-gsl in cc (especially since I'm just a user and not the
maintainer)
Alexander Belikoff wrote:
Hello Peter - thanks for the quick response. Cannot check right now,
will do tomorrow morning. GSL itself was downloaded as a .tgz package
from GNU FTP server (version 1.13). What install-sh does, is the
following: the moment it finds a non-option argument it assigns it to
*src* variable. Next time it finds a non-option argument, given that
*$src* is non-empty, it assigns it to *dst*. As a result, after
processing the command-line arguments, *$src* is the first non-option
arg, and *$dst* is the last one with everything in between ignored.
I downloaded the latest gsl (1.13) and indeed the behavior of install-sh
is sub-optimal. When I previously claimed that install-sh worked as
expected for me that was based on an install-sh that comes with automake
1.11 (script version 2009-04-28.21). That version of install-sh differs
significantly from the one in gsl 1.13. It seems like the install-sh has
not been updated when the maintainer has updated his automake. The
Makefile.ins that come in gsl 1.13 are created by automake 1.11 but
install-sh is probably an older version. In order to update install-sh
(and friends) one needs to (as a maintainer) call automake with the
--force switch. I noticed that the autogen.sh script in the git
repository calls automake without the --force switch, which might
explain why the files have never been updated.
I've fixed it for my installation by lifting install-sh from another
package and putting it in place of the one in GSL.
Seems like a good workaround.
Anyway, I'll provide more info tomorrow...
Cheers,
Peter
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