Questions about "make install"

[Mike Meyer]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:43:18 +0200
Paul Boddie <paul.boddie at biotek.uio.no> wrote:
> I'm not claiming anything. I'm saying that you'd use whichever version 
> it is that insists on -c, if you have this need to use -c at all, 
> whether that's the xpg4 one or another. I'm not sitting in front of a 
> login to a Solaris machine to check.

I don't *have* any need for the -c. Quite the opposite.  Is it always
this hard to get an answer on the mercurial list? I asked two *simple*
questions about the way the source distribution did things. I didn't
ask how to work around those things, I didn't say doing them that way
was wrong, and I didn't complain about that way of doing things - I
just asked why they were done that way. One gets answered, along with
a free helping of irrelevant debate (in which yes, I did complain
about doing things that way and state that it was wrong, but still
never suggested that it be changed), and the other gets ignored and
then treated like I was asking how to work around some related issue,
without actually answering the question.

Let me repeat the original question: "Why does docs/Makefile use the
-c flag for install when it either does nothing or causes the command
to fail, depending on which version of install it uses?"

   <mike
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