Alex Ferguson writes:
>
> install-sh does a fine line in unhelpful error messages: well, error
> message singular, at any rate...
>
> for i in hp2ps; do \
> /export/home/ferguson/ghc-3.00/build/install-sh -c -g ghc-admin -s $i
> /usr/local/bin; \
> done
> hp2ps:error reading file
>
> This seems to be its catch-all for anything that goes wrong, making
> diagnosis a tad tricky. On one machine it was a full disk, another
> one I'm still trying to puzzle out...
>
install-sh is the fallback script used if the configure script is
unable to find an OK looking `install' somewhere along your PATH.
If install-sh is such a pain to work with, you may want to try
out the `install' that comes with the GNU fileutils.
--Sigbjorn
