[Nagiosplug-devel] INSTALL and INSTALLING

Ton Voon tonvoon at mac.com
Wed Mar 12 13:20:02 CET 2003


On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 03:27  am, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:20, Ton Voon wrote:
>> No idea about why there are two files.
>
> It reflects a possibly unresolved issue on MacOS (and windos, perhaps).
>
> Those OS's do not reliably distinguish between 'INSTALL' and 'install'.
> So the 'install' used by make can be tripped up.
>
> But automake (or was it autoconf?) requires INSTALL in order to work
> correctly. So if the Mac issue is known to be resolved, we should be
> able to remove INSTALLING, I think.
>
> Comments, Subhendu?

On Mac OS 10.2, I've been quite happily running make install, so I 
think this is okay.





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