On 29 May 2010, at 22:56, markus schnalke wrote:
You mean, install is just meant as a wrapper around the standard tools to express the actions in a more compact way. (btw: It's a shame that install isn't a shell script then.)
Autoconf'd packages usually include install-sh for systems which don't have it. The copy of instlal-sh I'm looking at right now is 323 lines; no idea why.
-- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis