Re: Ownership not set for some files by make install

VK> Well, last night I've rebuilt Gnus from CVS in such a VK> manner. It's installed correctly, while it's makefile is not VK> complicated anyway. Right ... but it relies on having install available, and one which behaves "correctly." GNU Project apps can and do take the attitude "too bad ... install GNU and win." VK> I think, it would be nice, if it would be changed to use VK> install or cp. Or there're good reasons not to do so? There are, or at least were, good reasons not to do so. tar, while not terribly portable, is more portable than install, and cp does the wrong thing with some files IIRC, at least on some systems. Now the main reason is that this works, and the amount of effort it would take to change it is way out of proportion to the potential benefit. If you want to experiment with alternatives and submit a patch against 21.5, that's fine with me. But I don't see a good reason to spend a lot of effort (and messing with the makefile is typically a lot of effort) on something that we probably can't get 100% right no matter what we do. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.