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Re: install-sh path, differs?


From: Ralf Corsepius
Subject: Re: install-sh path, differs?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:58:16 +0200

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 22:38, Paul Elliott wrote:
> Newbe quesion:
> 
> Before creating the tarball for my project, I do the following:
> 
> autoheader 
> touch NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog
> touch stamp-h
> aclocal
> autoconf
> 
> automake -a
> 
> Then I want to let my users do .configure ; make ; make install
> 
> But my users are complaining that "install-sh" is a symlink
> and that the path to this file differs on different Linux distros.
> (I have SuSE 9.0)
> 
> Does this mean that I should change "automake -a" in the above to
> "automake -a -c" to actually make a copy of the file pointed to by
> install-sh?
IMHO, yes.

>  Is this file independent of various versions of automake
> autoconf so that the hard copy of the one on my system will work on
> their's?
Yes and no. You are supposed to ship the install-sh you are using as
part of your package. Therefore it doesn't matter which automake your
users have installed.

> What is the official solution to this problem?

autoreconf 
make dist

Ralf





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