[vorbis-dev] Makefile.in for installing headers

[David Terrell]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 05:48:54PM +0200, wrobell wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 12:31:47PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > > install: all
> > > > > > 	mkdir -p @prefix@/include/vorbis
> > > > > > 	mkdir -p @prefix@/include/vorbis/book
> > > > > > 	cp -a vorbis/*.h @prefix@/include/vorbis/
> > > > > > 	cp -a vorbis/book/*.vqh @prefix@/include/vorbis/book/
> > > > Is there any benefit of doing so ?
> > > minimal set of tools... and it is nice i think
> > 
> > So this is 100% stylistic issue ?
> yes...

No.  Use 'install' wherever possible, the permissions are correct then.
Imagine if an admin untars the source with a umask of 077 then cp's the
files with the makefile.  Nobody can read them...

BSD wrote 'install' for a reason :)


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