X-Authentication-Warning: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de: broeker owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:58:51 +0100 (MET) From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker X-Sender: broeker AT acp3bf To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Fileutils 4.0 port and ginstall In-Reply-To: <20010306122652.A14041@kendall.sfbr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, JT Williams wrote: > -: > But if you've never seen anything that does check that 'src' has been > -: > copied to 'dest', then it's probably OK. I admit it does seem like a > -: > stange thing to do - you'd expect ginstall to return an error code if it > -: > failed. > > Ok, I'm thoroughly confused now about what `install' will and will not do. > I use something like this in makefiles: > > $(INSTALL) foo/bar$(EXE) elsewhere/bar$(EXE) > > where $(EXE) is `.exe' if `make' runs on my DJGPP box, and is null > otherwise. Is `install' now going to make this decision for me? No, not in that case. But it tries to be helpful in cases where you forgot to set EXE = .exe, even though you're using DJGPP. I.e. for the typical DOS-unaware Unix source package. It'll translate a call install foo/bar elsewhere/bar silently into an equivalent of install foo/bar elsewhere/bar stubify elsewhere/bar remove elsewhere/bar # not sure about this one... Thus creating elsewhere/bar.exe -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.