Re: Faster install-sh in C - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Faster install-sh in C
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Msg-id 42420B45.8050804@samurai.com
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In response to Re: Faster install-sh in C  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Also, keep in my that this C install program has the extra feature of
> being able to install multiple files on one invocation, per suggestion
> from Tom Lane.  This allows us to save the nested for-loop in
> src/include/Makefile.  GNU install (available on my system) also has
> this capability, but would we be able to use the trick if we had to
> cater for the lowest common denominator found on other, non-GNU-enabled
> systems?

Why not check for GNU install in configure, and only enable the
optimization if it is available?

-Neil


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