Felix Zielcke wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 16:19 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs:
config.guess, config.sub, missing, mkinstalldirs, and install-sh are
only copied from /usr/share/automake-<version> as a part of automake.
AFAICT, they are not used in GRUB. I'm pretty sure they are the same
on
all architectures, but I could be wrong about that.
config.guess and config.sub are used by configure.
Called yes, and it will give errors if not present, but is the output
used? Looking at configure, I don't think so.
mkinstalldirs is used by the generated Makefile.
It looks like a part of the generated install and dist targets. Looking
at the code of mkinstalldirs, it fundamentally does a mkdir -p. It can
change the permissions of the final directory, but that is not used by
the Makefile. It does do some cleanup for NextStep and OpenStep and
makes sure that GNU mkdir is used on Sun. The odds this will change in
the future are very small.
Looks like configure checks if install-sh is there but except of this it
isn't used.
missing isn't used because we don't use automake and maintainer mode.
Looks that way to me too.
-- Bruce
P.S. Some may ask why I am putting so much into the warnings generated
by the build process. There are a few reasons. First, I feel that
persistent warnings tend to make developers ignore ALL warnings and that
makes it very easy to miss something relevant. Second, it gives new
developers a feeling that the original developers paid attention to
details and will give confidence that the rest of the package is
correct. Third, it scratches an itch for me. :)
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