[rrd-users] Re: RRD Makefile fix for GNU-centric install assumption

[Tobias Oetiker]

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*> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
*> [...]
*> > *> > > install-data-local:
*> > *> > >         test -d $(PERLLIBS)/auto/RRDs \
*> > *> > >         || mkdir $(PERLLIBS)/auto/RRDs \
*> > *> > >         || exit 1; \
*> > *> > >         chmod 755 $(PERLLIBS)/auto/RRDs
*> > *> > 
*> > *> > The GNU-way to do portable mkdirs, installs, and such is to use GNU
*> > *> > shtool, which Ralf Engelschall, of WML fame, etc. has been working on:
*> > *> > 
*> > *> >    http://www.gnu.org/software/shtool/
*> > *> 
*> > *>   I suppose, but test, mkdir, and chmod ought to be universally
*> > *> available, and I noticed that same construct is used several places
*> > *> elsewhere in the makefile.  (Surely you don't think I'd write original
*> > *> code if I could steal it!)
*> > *> 
*> > *>   Anyway, no big deal, just thought I might save future users of
*> > *> hard-line BSD systems a few minutes of grief.
*> > 
*> > thanks for the imput ... will add it to the next release ...
*> > (probably the last of the 1.0.x series ... then we will move to 1.1
*> > development with the nifty patch from the webtv folks
*> 
*> Hi Tobias,
*> 
*> take care that this solution does not work, you need `mkdir -p' instead
*> of mkdir, but this flag is not portable.
*> This is why some people write replacement scripts.

thanks ... good point ... I guess I could make this a call to
install-sh which I am distributing anyways ...

cheers
tobi
*> 
*> Denis
*> 

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