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author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2012-05-19 12:04:50 -0700 |
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committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2012-05-19 12:04:50 -0700 |
commit | 41a2ce39fa914487fb649edaea1a5e2a8f886bc6 (patch) | |
tree | 19447915bf343af3bd638d63763aeb6838f1ff16 /Makefile.in | |
parent | af006ad50e088b8e2f715a1778fa4caa3ab28d8f (diff) | |
download | emacs-41a2ce39fa914487fb649edaea1a5e2a8f886bc6.tar.gz |
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diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in index 6e0f8703d06..acaafcd23ae 100644 --- a/Makefile.in +++ b/Makefile.in @@ -511,6 +511,12 @@ set_installuser=for installuser in $${LOGNAME} $${USERNAME} $${USER} \ ## Is it really Emacs's job to create those directories? ## Should we also be ensuring they contain subdirs.el files? ## It would be easy to do, just use write_subdir. + +## Note that we use tar instead of plain old cp -R/-r because the latter +## is apparently not portable (even in 2012!). +## http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-05/msg00278.html +## I have no idea which platforms Emacs supports where cp -R does not +## work correctly, and therefore no idea when tar can be replaced. install-arch-indep: install-leim install-info install-man ${INSTALL_ARCH_INDEP_EXTRA} umask 022 ; \ $(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)`echo ${locallisppath} | sed 's,:, $(DESTDIR),g'` |