INSTALL set incorrectly in gdb/doc/Makefile

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone else see problems with the value of INSTALL in
> > gdb/doc/Makefile?
> > 
> > In my case, it gets set to "../".  I did a bit of digging, and it
> > seems that the reason is that gdb/configure uses ac_given_INSTALL
> > right before it recurses into gdb/doc, but ac_given_INSTALL is not set
> > anywhere except config.status, which runs in a separate shell.
> > 
> > I initially thought it was specific to DJGPP, but the above seems
> > quite general...
> 
> Trying a configure on a bsd system I see:
> 
> $ grep '^INSTALL' gdb/doc/Makefile 
> INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c
> INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}
> INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
> 
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> I'm not sure.

How would people suggest to go about trying to solve this problem?  It
looks like some Autoconf problem.  Where would be a good place to ask
about this?