* Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:37:01AM CEST: > Brian Gough wrote: > > - AC_PROG_INSTALL could confirm that the install program it finds > > works in the way it will be used in "make install" and give an > > error otherwise. > > Perhaps it already does for the system install,
Yes, some testing of the system install is done. > if so extending that to > the bundled one isn't a great stretch. > > What would be the best way? Do you think this might cause other > > problems? > > I suggest dropping install-sh completely except for the coreutils > package. Expecting GNU coreutils to be installed on each system is unreasonable. Other systems have quite well-functioning tools, too. Autotools generally strive to produce packages that work well on all kinds of Posix and almost-Posix systems. Cheers, Ralf
