2012-03-21



I don't like the auto* stuff, that's no news.

Today I wondered why one needs `mkinstalldirs' when  it's  effec-
tively  only `mkdir -p'. The latter one is available on virtually
any Unix system on earth, why not use that then?

I do understand that install(1) is nice because it makes  instal-
ling  files  brief.  Brief is good. But as it is non-standard, we
would better rely  on  the  standard  tools.  But  no,  there  is
`install-sh'  (or  `install.sh'),  a  230-line  shell script that
needs to be copied into each  project  in  order  to  supply  the
makefile  with  an install(1)-compatible command. Bad enough. But
it contains these horrible lines like:

     mvprog="${MVPROG-mv}"

Oh man! If `mv' isn't mv(1), then I surely don't want my software
to be installed on such a broken system.

Could we please use Unix?!



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>