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> 
>  *   Repeat after me kids: "I will not try to install files into a directory
>  *   when I'm not sure whether or not that directory exists."
> 
> I've been bitten by this several times.  Maybe we can make a new flag
> to cp/install that says "the destination should be a directory...if
> not, report an error".
> 

Would 

	install ..... ${DESTDIR}/usr/foo/.

do it ?

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'