On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 November 2014 19:25, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: >> Hello. Is there a particular reason that a combination of cp, mkdir, >> and chmod are used rather than the install command, in several suckless >> projects (in the install target of Makefile)? > > To me the answer is rather obvious. install violates the Unix > principle, because it does too many things, that are achieved already > by cp, mkdir, chmod, etc.
That was what I was thinking as well. It would make sense just to put calls to these binaries into a 'install' shell script and leave it at that (implementing this in shell may reveal that some of GNU install's functionality can not be mimicked that way but I wouldn't care too much about that).
