On 29 May 2010, at 23:20, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
On 29 May 2010, at 22:56, markus schnalke wrote:
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.)
Autoconf'd packages usually include install-sh for systems which
don't have it. The copy of instlal-sh I'm looking at right now is
323 lines; no idea why.
Ha! It's 323 lines and doesn't even include automatic directory
creation. At least, it doesn't have the -D option.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
