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Re: INSTALL set incorrectly in gdb/doc/Makefile
> A guess is that your system doesn't have a real install program so
> configure is trying to set things up for src/install-sh
> (../../install-sh)
No, I do have an install program (from GNU Fileutils), but for certain
good reasons I force its path down configure's throat:
INSTALL="/foo/bar/ginstall -c" ./configure
This still should work, AFAIK, because the configure script does
provide for the possibility of doing this. It works as expected in
all directories except gdb/doc. I suspect that the reason is that gdb
is the only directory in the distro where Autoconf-generated configure
script recurses into a subdirectory which itself has a configure
script (jeez, what a mouthful!).
I actually added "set -x" to gdb/configure and saw the value of
ac_given_INSTALL being empty just before the snippet which computes
INSTALL before recursing into gdb/doc.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.