[xmlsec] install-sh and multiple files

Roumen Petrov xmlsec at roumenpetrov.info
Fri Sep 24 13:31:30 PDT 2010


Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> Which OS do you use?
>
> Aleksey
>
> On 9/22/10 2:45 PM, Russell Beall wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install the latest version of xmlsec, but I am having
>> trouble with the installer.
>>
>> The installer from 1.2.13 works because it feeds files one at a time to
>> install-sh.
>>
>> The installers from 1.2.14, 1.2.15 and 1.2.16 do not work because the
>> makefile instruction feeds multiple files to install-sh all at once.
>> Only the first file in the list gets actually installed.
>>
[SNIP]

I guess that repository is with old autotools files:
The my source tree differ to origin is following files:
+++ b/depcomp
+++ b/install-sh
+++ b/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/m4/ltoptions.m4
+++ b/m4/ltversion.m4
+++ b/m4/lt~obsolete.m4
+++ b/missing
+++ b/mkinstalldirs

The diference is from following comands:
$ libtoolize --force --copy
$ aclocal --force -I m4
$ autoheader --force
$ autoconf --force
$ automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing --foreign

as libtool is trunk (after 2.2.10) version, automake - 1.11.1 and 
autoconf - 2.65.

The diff file show that install.sh into repository is with comment "# 
This comes from X11R5 (mit/util/scripts/install.sh)". Definitely this 
old script don't support multiple files on command line.

Solution - either remove from repository depcomp, install-sh, missing 
and mkinstalldirs so that autogen.sh script will create that when is 
build release tar-bal or update update  autogen.sh script to use --force 
argument to replace old automake files.

Roumen


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