Re: 10 failures in recent automake checkout testsuite under Solaris 9

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> and all in all I'm really not sure whether we shouldn't just convince
> users to fix the file permissions of install-sh instead.

I agree.  Let's just do that.  It's much simpler.

> +so your package should contain @file{install-sh} as described under
> address@hidden, and should not invoke @code{MKDIR_P} from a
> +changed directory.

That wording confused me.  I first thought you were talking about the
st_mtime value of the working directory.  It would be better to say
that MKDIR_P must be invoked from the directory that contains the
Makefile.

Also, if we document this constraint for MKDIR_P, shouldn't we also
document it for INSTALL, using similar wording?