Re: [HACKERS] Proposed autoconf change: rip out search for 'install'
Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.nmsu.edu>
From: Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-12-08T20:53:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
The minimum-change, safest way to address the issue is to take out configure.in's search for an install and always use install-sh unless the user specifically overrides that. Using AC_PROG_INSTALL looks to me like it introduces more risk; there's a possibility that it will settle on an install that isn't really compatible, which is the same problem we've got now. On the other hand, there's a lot to be said for using standardized solutions, and AC_PROG_INSTALL is presumably pretty well tested... Why not just go with AC_PROG_INSTALL since it gets tested by all the other gnu software installations anyway. If there are special cases that it doesn't grok we can always put it inside a conditional based on a --with-install=/your/favorite/install/program configure option. I doubt we really will need that, though. Cheers, Brook