Subject: Re: bug#9459: 24.0.50; Configure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux.

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:38:21 +0200

Glenn Morris skrev 2011-09-07 18:26:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
>
>> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in
>> build-aux "../current"/build-aux
>
> There's probably some autotools invocation that avoids this, and
> starting from a fresh checkout probably doesn't have an issue; but all I
> did for my existing checkouts after I saw the corresponding change get
> installed was:
>
>    mv compile config.guess config.sub depcomp install-sh missing build-aux/
>
> plus the usual maintainer-clean.

Yes that fixes it.  But a heads up would be nice when making a 
configure-breaking change like this.  Why not let configure do the move itself 
if it detects those files at the top of the tree?

	Jan D.