From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 12 15:13:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16023 for current-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16011 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA10570; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:09:55 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05847; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:09:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA12393; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:04:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604122204.AAA12393@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Install being a bit funny? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:04:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604121723.TAA02837@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Apr 12, 96 07:23:40 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Murray wrote: > Our install(1) will not install scripts if -s is part of the command > line (as done by autoconf). I think you could follow the religious wars about this problem in the mailing list archives... The final (though not commonly agreed) opinion was the `-s' does only apply to executable object files, and that it's a usage error to use it elsewhere. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)