>>> "PO" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PO> I guess I'll try this list, since mails and pings to bug-automake get no PO> response... PO> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2005-07/msg00141.html> PO> install-sh, if it loses its execute bit causes install to fail. PO> 2005-??-?? Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PO> * lib/am/distdir.am: Remove $(SHELL) when calling install_sh PO> * m4/strip.m4: Ditto. PO> * m4/install-sh.m4: Add $(SHELL) to the definition of install_sh Thanks for the patch. Can you explain how the x bit vanished? This looks like the bug we should fix first. Tom once said he wasn't sure why all those invocations through $(SHELL) were necessary, that maybe they were relic from some distant past (something with cygnus?) and no longer required today. Recently, I've been tempted to remove them all, because I believe these scripts are simple enough to work with any /bin/sh, and presently configure can set @SHELL@ to a shell that would cause the scripts to fail (like zsh, which requires some initialization soap none of the scripts has). Of course the latter point is not a real argument, because we could add the soap, and anyway if @[EMAIL PROTECTED] then make will run the Makefile fragments using zsh, and this should fail at some point too, perhaps before starting any of the scripts. So I'm neither for or against $(SHELL), but I'd like to be sure why it's needed. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
