bug#15066: ./configure && make && make install

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 08/10/2013 01:43 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> I note a lot of packages come with

[...]

>     Basic Installation
>     ==================
> 
>        Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
>     configure, build, and install this package.  The following
> 
> I think that should say
>             `./configure && make && make install'

Thanks for the report.
As you didn't say to what file you refer to, I'm assuming you refer
to the file './INSTALL'.  That one is a symlink to gnulib:

  $ ls -ldog
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Aug  1 03:38 INSTALL -> gnulib/doc/INSTALL

Therefore, it is maintained there.
However, that's not the end of the story, as gnulib regularly
syncs it from the autoconf project.

So if you want the want to have it changed, please report this
issue there.  As the improvement will automatically make it's
way down to coreutils, I'm marking this bug as done.

> Please tell whoever writes that file, as the file itself
> doesn't say. (Bad also!)

As you see, that file is shared by many projects, and therefore
adding an author would not be beneficial.

Have a nice day,
Berny