[Nagiosplug-devel] INSTALL and INSTALLING

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Mar 12 18:08:05 CET 2003


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Ton Voon wrote:

> 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.
> 

This was reported for MacOS X - don't remeber the version - perhaps 10.1.

If it works with 10.2 - then I'm ok wtih removing it.



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-sg





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