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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:04:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Subject:   Re: Install being a bit funny?
Message-ID:  <199604122204.AAA12393@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604121723.TAA02837@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Apr 12, 96 07:23:40 pm

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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. ;-)



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