From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-05-24T02:17:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling ruby - cannot find install-sh or install.sh

Hi,

At Tue, 23 May 2006 04:05:54 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:193957]:
> Except that it's a 0 byte file that hasn't been updated since August 13,
> 1999, unless I'm missing something.

It is there just because autoconf requires it.  But since it
isn't installed so it isn't usable to install extensions later.

> For Solaris I just used the install-sh that was shipped with automake.
> However, I have to hand edit the Makefile to change "./install-sh" to
> just "install-sh" to make things work. :(

I expect that the problem on Solaris would solve by clearing
ac_install_sh after AC_CANONICAL_TARGET.  But I'm not sure
about Kris'es issue, why configure can't find install-sh file.


Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.212.2.46
diff -p -U2 -r1.212.2.46 configure.in
--- configure.in	20 Mar 2006 03:07:21 -0000	1.212.2.46
+++ configure.in	23 May 2006 15:43:15 -0000
@@ -74,4 +74,5 @@ fi
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 target_os=`echo $target_os | sed 's/linux-gnu$/linux/;s/linux-gnu/linux-/'`
+ac_install_sh='' # unusable for extension libraries.
 
 dnl checks for fat-binary


-- 
Nobu Nakada