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Author cstratak
Recipients cstratak
Date 2018-09-21.15:47:07
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The install-sh file that python uses for autotools is horribly outdated. Last update was 16 years ago and it's being copied from automake's source code.

Updating it to modern standards could potentially fix issues for systems that use autotools, but it has the downside of having some backwards incompatible changes e.g. [0][1] (or you can search at their NEWS file [2]) which could break some previous applied workarounds.

As things stand, there is no bug at the moment and autotools just work so would a PR for updating install-sh to a newer version be considered? 

[0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/lib/install-sh?id=84a98180dd37a32891800fb9aafdf685bab74252
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/lib/install-sh?id=bd44db1abdeea3643ba0387de24af7539da644e4
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/NEWS
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