On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:25:28AM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:35, Martin Reinecke wrote: > > Unfortunately I have no way of finding out more about the local "install", > > as it doesn't accept the --help flag: > > Did you check to see if it might be a shell script? If so, there might > be comments in it. If it isn't a shell script, then running "strings" > on it might give useful info. Also try options -v, --verbose, and > --version.
It's not a shell script, and "strings" doesn't reveal much either. But I can probably talk to the responsible person at the computing center tomorrow, and hope to learn more about the program. > autoconf already has a number of checks for various known install > programs with various known bugs. If it can be identified, then > autoconf can be fixed to avoid use of it. > > I don't see the install program in my out-dated copy of POSIX, but there > is a long history of UNIX systems having a program called install that > works the way gcc expects it to work. So I'm tempted to call it a bug > with your system, though I can't produce a convincing argument for > that. One could also perhaps call it a bug in autoconf that it doesn't > check for this and work around it. I'll let you know what kind of install it is, as soon as I know it myself. If it isn't something completely homegrown, a change to autoconf might indeed be useful. --
