Re: Faster install-sh in C

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Faster install-sh in C
Date: 2005-03-24 00:35:17
Message-ID: 42420B45.8050804@samurai.com
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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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