[2010-05-29 23:46] Moritz Wilhelmy <c...@wzff.de> > > Very often I see makefile use install(1) when cp, mkdir, chmod, and > > Co. would be equally compact. > > Consider > > install -D -m755 -u foo -g bar foo.sh $DESTDIR/usr/bin > > vs. > > mkdir -p $DESTDIR/usr/bin > cp foo.sh $DESTDIR/usr/bin > chmod 755 $DESTDIR/usr/bin/foo.sh > chown foo:bar $DESTDIR/usr/bin/foo.sh > > and tell me about "equally compact" again...
I know about such cases, but this is not the common case, at least as far as I've seen it. You mean, install is just meant as a wrapper around the standard tools to express the actions in a more compact way. (btw: It's a shame that install isn't a shell script then.) meillo
