>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm reluctant to chop $destdir using sed in a loop, but at least >> that sounds less clumsy than going into an empty subdirectory to >> execute set :) Any other idea ? Paul> Here's a fix for that problem. The basic idea is to drop the use Paul> of IFS, except on ancient platforms that don't support mkdir -p. Paul> Also, this fix documents Automake's current limitations in this area. Excellent! Thanks! Paul> And it tunes install-sh a bit. I think some of these changes need to be synced with mkinstalldirs and vice-versa. But it's not clear to me because you seems to tune it much more than the ChangeLog accounts for. What's the story with all these test_mode/umask things ? mkinstalldirs also uses IFS the split the directory in case `mkdir -p' does not exist, but its `mkdir -p' check is more restrictive. (I buy your "sleep 1; test -d" instead.) Paul> By the way, I notice that we're now using install-sh even when GNU Paul> install is available. Is there a reason for that? There are some Paul> security issues involved here, I'm afraid, which would make it better Paul> to use GNU install if available. Automake uses install-sh systematically for installing nobase_ targets (instspc.test tests these a lot for this reason). It will use the install command found AC_PROG_INSTALL for other targets. The reason is that nobase_ targets need to be installed with the equivalent of GNU's "install -D", which isn't supported by other install implementations. Sure enough, we could have an AC_PROG_INSTALL_D check and use "install -D" when available. Paul> 2005-07-20 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul> * doc/automake.texi (limitations on file names): New section. Paul> * lib/install-sh: Rewrite to support '*' in file names. Paul> Also, tune so that we don't invoke so many commands in the usual case. Paul> * tests/instspc.test: The "*" test is now fixed. It does not seem to be fixed on platforms where "mkdir -p" does not work. (I'm concerned by the spurious report about test suite failures more than by the missing feature on these system.) Does Stephan's patch for quoting $@ before eval look right to you? -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
