From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: install -> ginstall symlink in fil316b Date: 6 Mar 2000 11:59:22 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <8a06iq$rcs$1@antares.lu.erisoft.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.lu.erisoft.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: : Incidentally, I think it's not a good idea to use `install' on : DOS/Windows systems anyway: you could easily pick up the Windows : install.exe, what with the brutal Windows way of sticking its own : directories to the front of PATH (unless you use special work-arounds : for this misfeature in your AUTOEXEC.BAT). So I think using : `ginstall' is better even without this bug. (Why do you think all : Makefile's in ports of GNU utilities use ginstall? ;-) Hey! What's this work-around? Right, MartinS