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Old 05-30-2014, 05:47 PM   #1
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"Looking for BSD-install compatible"

I've seen that many times while compiling packages. Why does that shows up on a Linux system? It doesn't make sense to me.
 
Old 05-30-2014, 05:54 PM   #2
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checking for BSD compatible install...
This is just the usual GNU autohell cruft. 30 years ago there Unices, which didn't have a /usr/bin/install compatible to the version BSD shipped. So autoconf still checks for this. It also checks for a dozen different Fortran compilers, nobody uses today.

The whole configure.sh concept is broken, all these "checks" are executed even if the source is intended to be compiled on GNU/Linux only.
 
Old 05-30-2014, 06:10 PM   #3
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Oh I see, thanks for the explanation.
 
  


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