Accordingly to the git history (see for example the 'README-alpha' in commit 'Release-1-1e-39-g9beb4ec' of 06-10-1996), the 'acinstall' script should have been used to install m4 files for aclocal. The comments in this script report that "... A script is needed to do this because we want to do serial-number checking; newer versions of macro files should always be preferred".
But the 'acinstall' script has never been really used: for example, the entry "actually use acinstall program" was removed (unfixed) from the TODO file in commit 'Release-1-1k-12-g1201405' of 08-12-1996, and the only citation of 'acinstall' in the manual was removed in commit 'Release-1-1l-37-g128c3d7' of 19-03-1997, and never added back. In addition, the last non-trivial edit to the script (that is, besides updates to the copyright notice) dates back to 1996. More importantly, now that aclocal supports the ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable, installing m4 files directly in the system-wide acdir is discouraged, and better left only to distros' package managers (which already have their own way to do so, with which third-party build systems should not directly meddle). So we just remove the 'acinstall' script. * lib/acinstall: Remove. * lib/Makefile.am (dist_script_DATA): Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> --- NEWS | 3 +++ lib/Makefile.am | 1 - lib/acinstall | 50 -------------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) delete mode 100755 lib/acinstall diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2f52ff7..48d1c52 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ New in 1.11a: * Obsolete features removed: + - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been + removed. + - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed. - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am index fb80351..f56db26 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile.am +++ b/lib/Makefile.am @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ dist_script_DATA = \ mkinstalldirs \ elisp-comp \ ylwrap \ - acinstall \ depcomp \ compile \ py-compile \ diff --git a/lib/acinstall b/lib/acinstall deleted file mode 100755 index 20bdc3a..0000000 --- a/lib/acinstall +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -#! /bin/sh - -# Install an aclocal-style M4 file. A script is needed to do this -# because we want to do serial-number checking; newer versions of -# macro files should always be preferred. - -# Usage: -# acinstall file directory installprogram [install-args]... - -# Copyright 1996-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) -# any later version. - -# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -# GNU General Public License for more details. - -# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. - -file="$1" -dir="$2" -shift -shift - -localserial=`grep '^# serial ' $file | sed -e 's/^# serial \([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/; q'` -if test -z "$localserial"; then - echo "acinstall: no serial number in $file" 1>&2 - exit 1 -fi - -# Maybe if the installed file has no serial number we should just -# assume it is ancient. -instserial=`grep '^# serial ' $dir/$file | sed -e 's/^# serial \([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/; q'` -if test -z "$instserial"; then - echo "acinstall: no serial number in $dir/$file" 1>&2 - exit 1 -fi - -if test $localserial -lt $instserial; then - # Installed file is newer. - exit 0 -fi - -# Install the file. -$* $file $dir/$file -- 1.7.9
