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From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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	"'Richard Dawe'" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:	Re: Two small patches for the ported Fileutils 4.0
Date:	Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:19:24 +0100
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> > Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 17:19:21 +0000
> > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > > 
> > >   - ginstall would crash when invoked to install a file with no
> > >     extension (such as a shell script);
> > 
> > Hmmm, that's pretty serious.
> 
> I wonder how come no one saw that before.  Are you guys even using
> "make install"?  Or do we have too few packages which install shell
> scripts?  (I saw this in Texinfo, which installs texi2dvi.)

This bug doesn't seem to be present in the 4.0 package from Andrew's
site; I've had no problems installing development version of automake
and autoconf, and they're full of scripts.
And 'touch foo; ginstall foo /some/where/else/' works just fine.

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