Bug#559656: autoconf: please let Debian packages build without install-sh

2009-12-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Wouldn’t it be better to improve AC_PROG_INSTALL to address this case? > An argument to AC_PROG_INSTALL or command-line option to configure to > say "yes, I know install-sh is missing" would be really nice to have. It sounds reasonable to me. I guess upstream can advis

Bug#559656: autoconf: please let Debian packages build without install-sh

2009-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: autoconf Version: 2.65-2 Severity: wishlist Hi again, As I mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/559636, most configure scripts generated by autoconf fail if there is no copy of install-sh nearby: | configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.."