[LLVMdev] questions about installing llvm

Reid Spencer reid at x10sys.com
Thu Feb 17 14:51:44 PST 2005


Okay, my bad. I didn't realize that /usr/bin/install was the *new*
version of install and would accept -C as an option.

Reid.

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:44, Reid Spencer wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:59, Misha Brukman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:39:27AM -0800, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > > Actually, Misha, that won't work.
> > 
> > Sorry, Reid, but I think it will, for the following reason:
> > 
> > I don't really know what the -c (lowercase) option does, but install
> > says it's ignored anyway, so that's irrelevant for GNU install.  We're
> > talking about the -C option (uppercase).
> > 
> > > The -C option is used directly in docs/Makefile. So the change will have
> > > to go into docs/Makefile. Either that or upgrade install to version 5.
> > 
> > docs/Makefile uses $(INSTALL) -C (uppercase).
> > 
> > My point is that /usr/dcs/..../ginstall doesn't accept -C but
> > /usr/bin/install does.  
> > 
> > Changing it in Makefile.config will do the trick.
> 
> You were advocating changing the INSTALL variable to use -c instead of
> -C, so in docs/Makefile the command:
> 
> $(INSTALL) -C ...
> 
> would be expanded as:
> 
> /usr/bin/install -c -C ...
> 
> which still won't work.
> 
> Reid.
> 
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