[ANNOUNCE] xcalc 1.0.4

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 23:02:13 PST 2010


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Somchai Smythe wrote:
>> I compared it to the install-sh in xcalc-1.0.3 and it seems random
>> lines were deleted from the case statement.
>> -    -g) chgrpcmd="$chgrpprog $2"
>
> *sigh*   I see what happened now - the lines deleted are very much not
> random - they're the lines with $ in, due to my use of perl to remove
> CVS tags from * in that directory, not noticing I had a copy of install-sh
> in there (I usually build in separate directories so my git repos don't
> normally have those in).
>
> I'll go post new tarballs with a clean install-sh.   Sorry about that.
> (Strangely, "make distcheck" worked with the broken install-sh.)

Probably because distcheck doesn't exercise install-strip as far as I
can tell. It uses the normal install targets, which use
/usr/bin/install on most hosts.

--
Dan


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