Re: also copy install-sh

[Ross Boylan]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:11:01PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
...
> * Ross Boylan wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:54:49AM CET:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 06:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
... 
> > I can also imagine scenarios down the road where having install-sh in
> > two separate projects (libtool and automake) could lead to trouble.
> 
> Only if Libtool and Automake would carry different, incompatible
> versions of the script.  Fortunately, it is pretty stable and mature, so
> we won't have to worry much about this.  With config.guess and
> config.sub, things have worked fine so far as well (AFAIK), and they
> tend to change much more often.
> 

Even if libtool and automake are in sync on your end, they might get
out of sync for downstream packages.  Also, on Debian I believe only 1
package is allowed to own a particular file (though I also think there
are some ugly hacks around that).

Of course, the tools getting out of sync probably poses bigger
problems than this one.