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Re: Toplevel configury change exposed bug in make install for winsup/cygwin

From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
To: maxb at ukf dot net
Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:25:02 -0400
Subject: Re: Toplevel configury change exposed bug in make install for winsup/cygwin
References: <02f901c34be8$3478e560$6d61883e@starfruit>

maxb@ukf.net wrote:

The toplevel configury change:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/src-cvs/2003-q3/msg00006.html
causes /usr/bin/install to now be used instead of install-sh to install
files.

Since the Cygwin Makefile does not rigorously create directories before
attempting to install into them, it was previously relying on specific
behaviour of install-sh. /usr/bin/install fails on non-existant intermediate
directories. Therefore, make install fails.

No patch, I'm afraid, since I've only just debugged this far, and now I need
to go to sleep.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe either RedHat's or Mandrake's coreutils rpm has patched install to deal with this.

Cheers,
Nicholas

References:
- Toplevel configury change exposed bug in make install for winsup/cygwin
  - From: Max Bowsher

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