Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> in the autotools-dev package, I find config.guess and config.sub but no
> install-sh. However, install-sh is needed by AC_PROG_INSTALL.
It isn't the responsibility of the Autoconf package to provide
everything that an Autoconfiscated package might need. A C
compiler is needed by AC_PROG_CC, but Autoconf doesn't install a
C compiler either.
> You can find install-sh in MANY packages (27 in stable! and lots of them
> should not contain that file) but autoconf and autotools-dev is not among
> them.
Upstream autoconf, as far as I can tell, does not install any of
these either.
> Additionally, either the location of those files should be standardized with
> autoconf (read: should work on non-debian, too) or autoconf should provide a
> method like automake to copy them over.
The former is a nice suggestion, but in fact there is no
standardized place as far as I know. I don't see why autoconf
should provide a method to copy them. Are you unable to copy the
files yourself?
--
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
-- Linus Torvalds
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