>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PE> Following up on your response to PE> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2005-07/msg00024.html>: PE> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think some of these changes need to be synced with >> mkinstalldirs and vice-versa. PE> I thought mkinstalldirs was obsolete now? Do we need to PE> continue to maintain it? gettext still uses it. But I agree: let's forget about it, and let the remaining users to fix the problems they encounter if they can't switch to `install -d' for some reason. PE> What changes in mkinstalldirs need to be merged into install-sh? PE> (Presumably these can be folded in after the changes below are installed.) I'll have to check. I think I noticed that mkinstalldirs was trying `mkdir -p' before constructing the subdirectories one by one, while install-sh wasn't even attempting `mkdir -p'. But your patch addresses this already, doesn't it? [...] PE> In the revised patch enclosed below, I'll add some commentary about PE> this to help explain it. Thanks all lot! Could you remember to bump install-sh's $scriptversion before you commit it ? >> 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.) PE> That should be fixed now; please see below. >> Does Stephan's patch for quoting $@ before eval look right to you? PE> No, because echo mishandles some path names. However, there is PE> a better fix for the IFS problem in general, as discussed in PE> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-08/msg00074.html>. PE> The revised patch below incorporates this idea into install-sh. Thanks for the link. I didn't know about `set -f'. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
