On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:35, Martin Reinecke wrote: > Unfortunately I have no way of finding out more about the local "install", > as it doesn't accept the --help flag:
Did you check to see if it might be a shell script? If so, there might be comments in it. If it isn't a shell script, then running "strings" on it might give useful info. Also try options -v, --verbose, and --version. autoconf already has a number of checks for various known install programs with various known bugs. If it can be identified, then autoconf can be fixed to avoid use of it. I don't see the install program in my out-dated copy of POSIX, but there is a long history of UNIX systems having a program called install that works the way gcc expects it to work. So I'm tempted to call it a bug with your system, though I can't produce a convincing argument for that. One could also perhaps call it a bug in autoconf that it doesn't check for this and work around it. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com
