Tobias Gasser wrote: > in the current development the documentation for gawk was added by > 'mkdir' and 'cp'. most other packages use 'install' when copying > additional files. > > i already added the install statements for gawk 4.0 in my own scripts. > so i'd like to know why you use copy instead of install here. install > has the advantage to be able to set the rights while copying.
It's just variations of different ways to do the installs. The install operations are basically to create directories, copy files, and change owner, group and permissions. Since we install as root, the install process basically amounts to 'mkdir -p dir; cp files dir'. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
