[PATCH] fix problem with "install" call in populate script

[Anthony Foiani <anthony dot foiani at gmail dot com>]

Greetings all --

Due to the usual cascade of requirements and bugs, I had to upgrade my
toolchain to gcc-4.6.3, so I updated my ct-ng to latest hg head. (I
tried the 1.14.1 release, but that didn't have the 4.6.3 stuff in it).

When I ran though my old scripts for building my ramdisk, I got new errors:

/opt/cross/platforms/foo/xtools/bin/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu-populate:
line 208: /usr/bin/install -c: No such file or directory
readelf: Error: 'lib/libpthread.so.0': No such file

Adding verbosity didn't help. It turns out that autoconf found
"/usr/bin/install -c" to be the correct install tool. When populate
tries to call it, however, it keeps it in double-quotes, and the shell
tries to interpret the whole string as a command name:

 # this is the value returned by autoconf and stored in CT_install
 $ ins="/usr/bin/install -c"

 # if we call it with quotes, the command is not found
 $ "${ins}"
 bash: /usr/bin/install -c: No such file or directory

 # removing the quotes lets it work as expected
 $ ${ins}
 /usr/bin/install: missing file operand
 Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

The fix is easy: just remove the quotes around the use of ${install}.

Patch attached.

Thanks,
t.

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