From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>
Cc: tromey@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Texino build problem
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29539.891921654@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199804070130.SAA11301@rtl.cygnus.com>
In message < 199804070130.SAA11301@rtl.cygnus.com >you write:
> To avoid losing behavior with the default PROG_INSTALL -- it will
> select an install program (I don't remember which one) which does
> not work correctly.
>
> I believe the problematic program was the `installbsd' program. It looks like
> the Cygnus autoconf sources get this right because of Jeff Law's Sept 4
> patch, but I don't know if there are any released autoconf versions that
> handle this correctly yet.
That sounds correct (installbsd). And yes, I tweaked our version of
autoconf to avoid installbsd.
At the time there was not autoconf maintainer; now that there is we
should probably send that patch (and other local patches) to him.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-07 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-26 17:15 Mark Mitchell
1998-03-29 5:14 ` Manfred Hollstein
1998-04-02 11:32 ` Raja R Harinath
1998-03-29 5:14 ` H.J. Lu
1998-04-02 3:41 ` Richard Henderson
[not found] ` <d91zvi3dp2.fsf.cygnus.egcs@sejong.cs.umn.edu>
1998-04-04 14:20 ` Tom Tromey
1998-04-04 20:05 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-04-06 18:30 ` Jim Wilson
1998-04-07 19:34 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1998-04-07 19:34 ` Tom Tromey
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