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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:43:57 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.10 released
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> > Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:58:13 -0400
> >
> > The INSTALL override is neccessary
> > because the INSTALL line in the top-level Makefile is hardwired to a script
> > that doesn't work with DJGPP.
> 
> Yes, the same problem exists in GDB (which is not surprising, since
> they share the same source tree).  I tried to convince the maintainers
> to change that, but didn't have any success.  Perhaps we all should
> try again.
> 
> Btw, doesn't GCC have the same problems as well?

Yes, GCC sets it too, but overrides it with sane value in subdirectories.
BTW, maybe that's the case with gdb/binutils too, because even on unix
systems maintainers don't prefer install-sh script if they have reasonable
/usr/bin/install

Laurynas