From: Blake Jones <blakej@foo.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version (Solaris support)
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:27:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13729.1352093224@foo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:31:02 +0200." <87d2ztf42x.fsf@nikula.org>
> > +INSTALL="install"
> > +printf "Checking for working \"install\" program... "
> > +mkdir _tmp_
>
> This doesn't feel like a hot idea.
Out of curiosity, why not? An "install" that behaves as expected is
one of the first things that an autoconf-generated "configure" looks
for. Now, autoconf-configure implements that check using some
assumptions about where things are on different operating systems,
but that sort of check runs the risk of becoming stale (see below).
> Don't tell me you'd need to create a compatibility script for using
> mktemp --tmpdir too...
Yes I would, if it were used; not all the world's a GNU. But in the
case of mktemp, the widely available "-p" and "-t" options seem to get
you most of the way there. The SVR4 "install" in Solaris' /usr/sbin is
different enough from the BSD/GNU versions that I wouldn't want to try
to emulate it with a wrapper.
> Or how about just always using ginstall on Solaris?
I'd rather not do that. With the old UCB tools having been EOL'ed [1],
/usr/ucb/install (which would have worked) will be going away. There is
an open bug in the Sun bug tracking system about moving GNU install to
/usr/bin/install, specifically motivated by this change. So while I
don't know if/when that bug will be fixed, I would guess [2] that a
future release of Solaris may have a BSD/GNU-compatible version of
"install" in the default $PATH.
Blake
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/end-of-notices/eonsolaris11-392732.html
[2] Caveat: I work for Oracle in the Solaris kernel group, but I am not
speaking for my employer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-04 3:15 [PATCH 00/10] Solaris support Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 01/10] getpwuid: check for standards compliance (Solaris support) Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 02/10] asctime: " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 03/10] gethostbyname: check for libnsl " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 04/10] configure: check for -Wl,-rpath " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 05/10] install: check for non-SysV version " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 21:31 ` Jani Nikula
2012-11-05 5:27 ` Blake Jones [this message]
2012-11-05 11:29 ` Jani Nikula
2012-11-05 14:52 ` Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 06/10] strsep: check for availability " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:15 ` [PATCH 07/10] gen-version-script: parse Solaris "nm" output " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:16 ` [PATCH 08/10] notmuch-config: header for index() prototype " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 21:16 ` Jani Nikula
2012-11-04 21:47 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-11-05 4:52 ` Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:16 ` [PATCH 09/10] debugger.c: correct return type from getppid() " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 3:16 ` [PATCH 10/10] timegm: add portable implementation " Blake Jones
2012-11-04 10:21 ` Jani Nikula
2012-11-04 15:40 ` Blake Jones
2012-11-04 20:58 ` Jani Nikula
2012-11-05 4:50 ` Blake Jones
2012-11-05 12:09 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-11-05 15:47 ` Blake Jones
2012-11-05 17:36 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-11-05 18:33 ` Blake Jones
2012-11-04 21:35 ` [PATCH 00/10] Solaris support Jani Nikula
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