Re: [xml] queer usage of install-sh

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:41:37AM +0200, Matthias Jung wrote:
> Hi all,
> libxml comes with an 'install-sh' script which seems to be used when  
> good old 'install' is missing on a system.
> (I know you need a strange system setup to run into this. Or in my case  
> not having /usr/local/bin, which contains install, in PATH)
>
> libxml uses install-sh in the same way as install is used, with the  
> result of an incomplete libxml installation. For example include  
> directory will contain only SAX.h and SAX2.h. All other header files are  
> missing. Doc directory will also miss most html files.
>
> Investigation of install-sh showed, this script seems not to be designed  
> for copying multiple files at once.
>
> This is what libxml executes:
> ../.././install-sh -c -m 644 SAX.h entities.h encoding.h parser.h  
> parserInternals.h xmlerror.h HTMLparser.h HTMLtree.h debugXML.h tree.h  
> list.h hash.h xpath.h xpathInternals.h xpointer.h xinclude.h xmlIO.h  
> xmlmemory.h nanohttp.h nanoftp.h uri.h valid.h xlink.h xmlversion.h  
> DOCBparser.h catalog.h threads.h globals.h c14n.h xmlautomata.h  
> xmlregexp.h xmlmodule.h xmlschemas.h schemasInternals.h  
> xmlschemastypes.h xmlstring.h xmlunicode.h xmlreader.h relaxng.h dict.h  
> '/home/jung/tmp/libxml2-2.7.6-hippo/include/libxml2/libxml'
>
> Wondering am I really the first running into this?

  Possibly

> Daniel, what do you think would a for loop surrounding install calls  
> with multiple files be a good idea?
>
> By the way, this is what xmlsec is doing:
> install-xmlsecincHEADERS: $(xmlsecinc_HEADERS)
>        @$(NORMAL_INSTALL)
>        $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(xmlsecincdir)
>        @list='$(xmlsecinc_HEADERS)'; for p in $$list; do \
>          if test -f "$$p"; then d=; else d="$(srcdir)/"; fi; \
>          f="`echo $$p | sed -e 's|^.*/||'`"; \
>          echo " $(xmlsecincHEADERS_INSTALL) $$d$$p  
> $(DESTDIR)$(xmlsecincdir)/$$f"; \
>          $(xmlsecincHEADERS_INSTALL) $$d$$p  
> $(DESTDIR)$(xmlsecincdir)/$$f; \
>        done

  this call to install.sh is generated ! See
    include/libxml/Makefile.am
the source just lists the header in xmlinc_HEADERS, and auto* does
the magic of calling install or install.sh . Maybe install.sh need
to be refreshed

Daniel

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