Re: make install-strip of fileutils-4.1.5 fails if . is not in $PATH

[Jim Meyering]

Greg Louis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Subject says it.  mv got installed as #instXXXXX, then /bin/mv was
> deleted and from then on there was no mv so the remainiing files didn't
> get renamed either (rm was therefore lost as well).  Worked fine on
> another box where . _is_ in root's $PATH (naughty me!), presumably
> because the mv in the src directory was used to mv #instXXXX mv.

I wonder how that happened.
It sounds like you don't have a reasonable `install' program in
your path and the configure script resorted to using install-sh.

In any case, you can work around it by having the install
process use the just-built binary named `ginstall':

  make install INSTALL=`PWD`/src/ginstall