Re: [xml] queer usage of install-sh

[Roumen Petrov <bugtrack roumenpetrov info>]

Hi All,

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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

Daniel,
I confirm issue.
FSF install-sh support (from automake):
install-sh --help
Usage: ..../install-sh [OPTION]... [-T] SRCFILE DSTFILE
   or: ..../install-sh [OPTION]... SRCFILES... DIRECTORY
   or: ..../install-sh [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SRCFILES...
   or: ..../install-sh [OPTION]... -d DIRECTORIES...
....

Also .gitignore list following "automake" files :
- ./config.guess
- ./config.sub
- ./depcomp
but don't include following "automake" files :
- install-sh
- missing
- mkinstalldirs
It seems to me inconsistent.


Matthias,
You could replace files:
- install-sh
- missing
- mkinstalldirs
with files from automake package (usually located in 
/usr/share/automake*/ ) either manually or as run command
"automake --force-missing --add-missing --copy --foreign"


Regards,
Roumen