Re: LYNX-DEV duplication of install arguements with autoconf?

[T.E.Dickey]

> When I do a "make install", I get the following output:
> /usr/bin/install -c -c -s -m 755 lynx /home/nelsonhe/.lynx/lynx
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -c -m 444 lynx.man /home/nelsonhe/.man/man1/lynx.1
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -c -m 444 lynx.cfg /home/nelsonhe/lib/lynx.cfg.
> 
> The duplication of "-c", and with man and cfg, of "-m" and the permissions
> seems unnecessary.
I think so too, but am not totally certain if it's redundant in a
'portable' sense.  Will put that back on my list to check.
 
> Since I'm posting anyway, is there any problem with changing the name
> of src/Makefile and src/chrtrans/Makefile to */Makefile.old as was done
> for the top-level Makefile?  Don't like the warnings make gives me about
> having both Makefile and makefile.
that's fine (it'd also be fine to simply remove the obsolete stuff - it is
only the top-level Makefile.old that contains interesting legacy information).
I have a script that does that, but haven't applied it to the distribution
out of concern that people have grown attached to the non-configure scheme.
 
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