* Makefile.in (install-arch-indep): Use INSTALL_DATA for the DOC file.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 61f29a9ee78..c6679465211 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2012-05-11  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * Makefile.in (install-arch-indep): There are no more Makefile.c files.
+        Use INSTALL_DATA for the DOC file.
 
 2012-05-10  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index a8271f0ec9d..ac6ad2b5ac5 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ MV_DIRS = for i in $$dir; do rm -fr `basename "$$i"` ; mv "$$i" . ; done
 ### Install the executables that were compiled specifically for this machine.
 ### It would be nice to do something for a parallel make
 ### to ensure that install-arch-indep finishes before this starts.
+### (TODO Why would it be nice?  Why not just make this depend on
+### install-arch-indep then?)
 install-arch-dep: mkdir
         (cd lib-src; \
           $(MAKE) install $(MFLAGS) prefix=${prefix} \
@@ -579,11 +581,10 @@ install-arch-indep: mkdir info install-etc
              docfile="DOC"; \
            fi; \
            echo "Copying etc/$${docfile} to $(DESTDIR)${docdir} ..." ; \
-           (cd ./etc; tar -chf - $${docfile}) \
-             |(cd $(DESTDIR)${docdir}; umask 022; tar -xvf - && cat > /dev/null) || exit 1; \
+           ${INSTALL_DATA} etc/$${docfile} $(DESTDIR)${docdir}/$${docfile}; \
            (cd $(DESTDIR)$(docdir); \
             $(set_installuser); \
-            chown $${installuser} DOC*; chmod a+r DOC*; \
+            chown $${installuser} DOC*; \
             if test "`echo DOC-*`" != "DOC-*"; then rm -f DOC; fi); \
         else true; fi
         -unset CDPATH; \