Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Oct-2009, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| Ok, finally I also found out this problem and found a simple solution for it. 
| With your patch there comes a file in the root directory that is called 
| "install-sh". This file is a GNU/Linux file (at least I know that you are 
| working on a GNU/Linux box ;) and doesn't work very well on Macs. I removed 
this 
| file from my copy of the sources and autogen.sh'ed once again. Then 
install-sh 
| is created automatically (actually a link is created) which works very well 
and 
| also can handle the "-d" option correctly, see last line of this ./autogen.sh 
| output snippet:
| 
|    calling aclocal...
|    generating source lists for liboctave/Makefile...
|    generating doc/interpreter/images.mk...
|    generating src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk...
|    calling autoheader...
|    calling automake...
|    configure.ac:44: installing `./install-sh'
| 
| The install-sh file that is generated on my system then is a link that looks 
like
| 
|    bash$ ls -l install-sh
|    lrwxr-xr-x   1 Thomas  Thomas  41 Oct 30 20:13 install-sh ->
|      /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/install-sh
| 
| I think the best thing to solve this problem is to remove the "install-sh" 
file 
| from the sources because it is autogenerated.

I removed the old install-sh script.

Thanks,

jwe