Le 20 nov. 07 à 23:40, Karl Berry a écrit :
Hi Akim,
Hi Karl,
I suppose, but I'm not sure, that this is in order to let some tools postprocess the logs of a "make install". I've never heard of any, but what do I know.
I was suspecting this because of all the magical stuff around install targets: PRE_INSTALL, NORMAL_INSTALL etc.
I rather suspect it's because of different install programs behaved differently, back in the 1980's.
Ah, so it would be purely a matter of portability then.
install-sh already does the right thing, Right, but do our configure scripts typically check if install FILE1 FILE2 ... DIR works, as one criteria for whether install-sh is used?
No they don't, but of course we'd provide macros for this. Automake's macros would definitely check that to decide whether to use the system's install, or intall-sh.
If so, I can't see any reason to avoid the multiple-file invocation. If not, it seems like that needs to be done first?
Sure. But conversely, in order for Automake to get updated, included the needed macros, we need the GCS to accept this change :)
