Hello,

during some tests I noticed audit-userspace is not able to install on a uutils based system. After lots of debugging I tracked it down to:

audisp/plugins/af_unix/Makefile.am

install-data-hook:
	mkdir -p -m 0750 ${DESTDIR}${plugin_confdir}
	for i in $(CONF_FILES); do \
		$(INSTALL_DATA) -D -m 640 ${srcdir}/"$$i" \
			${DESTDIR}${plugin_confdir}; \
	done

which combined with an autotools internal library:

/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/programs.m4

test -z "$INSTALL_DATA" && INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644'
AC_SUBST(INSTALL_DATA)dnl
])# AC_PROG_INSTALL

Results in this code being executed:

mkdir -p -m 0750 /build/audit/pkg/audit/etc/audit/plugins.d
for i in af_unix.conf; do \
    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -D -m 640 ./"$i" \
        /build/audit/pkg/audit/etc/audit/plugins.d; \
done

This is valid with gnu/coreutils and busybox:

/ # install -m 644 -m 640 /etc/issue i
/ # stat -c%a i
640
/ # 

But is rejected as invalid by uutils:

% uu-install -m 644 -m 640 /etc/issue i
error: the argument '--mode <MODE>' cannot be used multiple times

Usage: uu-install [OPTION]... [FILE]...

For more information, try '--help'.

I'm not sure who exactly is in the wrong in this situation, the most pragmatic way would be changing uutils to only consider the .last() instance of -m.

As a workaround it's possible to do this:

make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" INSTALL_DATA="install" install