* Akim Demaille wrote on Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:47:41AM CET: > > - Don't try to factor calls to install with nobase_*
Could be a first step. > - Add a special --nobase flag to install-sh and use it > blindly for nobase_*. I don't like forced use of install-sh. It's much slower than GNU coreutils install. > - Sort and filter the files to install in nobase_*. I like this best. > I guess that in a first step, I would grep the files > that do not have a slash, and make one call for them, (assuming you mean shell globbing when you say grep here) > then sort the remain files to group them per directory > and then make one call for each set. This should be > simple using xargs, but I'm unsure about xargs' > portability. Any clue? You can use xargs, GCS allows it. Of course you cannot use -0, and automake/tests/instspc.test will tell you what should continue to work. For everything else, I guess we will write a new paragraph in autoconf.texi about xargs when we get to it. Cheers, Ralf
