From kde-commits  Sun Apr 30 22:37:18 2000
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:37:18 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: kde-common/admin
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-commits&m=95713801901469

Michael Matz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 kde-cvs@kde.org wrote:
> >  > Modified Files:
> >  >         acinclude.m4.in
> >  > Log Message:
> >  > added our own version of AC_PROG_INSTALL checking for a -p switch, and
> >  > at the same time using the autoconf version of this function. M4 magic ;)
> >
> >  God! Did you read a book? How scary.
> >
> >  And now you should hardcode the value of INSTALL_SCRIPT to the value of
> >  INSTALL_PROGRAM, as the value of INSTALL_PROGRAM is changed by automake
> >  on the fly ;(
> 
> How lucky, that configure (and the old autoconf macro) uses
> INSTALL_DATA = '${INSTALL} -m 644'
> 
> Note that $INSTALL gets not expanded in the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro, but in
> the Makefile, so I only need to change $INSTALL, and its taken up by all
> Makefiles. Or what do you mean? At least for me I get in my Makefiles:
> 
> INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c -p
> INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}
> INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
> INSTALL_SCRIPT = ${INSTALL_PROGRAM}
> 
> (May be it gets confused because you have INSTALL_DATA=... in your
> startup-scripts?) Or was it a feature request?
> 
Well, it wasn't my bug report, that make install-strip is broken because
it sets INSTALL_PROGRAM to INSTALL -s and then INSTALL_SCRIPT is broken

Greetings, Stephan

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