Subject: install.exe does not create destination directory if more than 1 source file
From: David Starks-Browning <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked] (Rich Megginson)
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:32:52 +0100

On Tuesday 25 Sep 01, Rich Megginson writes:
> Why doesn't install.exe (from fileutils) 

If it's from fileutils, then your argument is with the GNU fileutils
folks, not with Cygwin.  You can study <http://www.gnu.org/directory/fileutils.html>
for details on how to reach them.

> have an option to create the destination directory if it does not exist if installing
> more than 1 source file?  For example, I want to do something like this:
> install *.pl /path/to/destination/perl/script/directory
> > this complains that the directory does not exist
> install -D *.pl /path/to/destination/perl/script/directory
> > this only works with one source and dest file
> install -d *.pl /path/to/destination/perl/script/directory
> > this tries to create all directories mentioned in the command line
> 
> Most unixen have install -c (or -t) which creates the destination directory if it does not exist.  I notice install.exe accepts
> and ignores -c?????
> 

Regards,
David

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