Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 09/17] [ng] check: unconditionally distribute test-driver

[Akim Demaille]

Le 22 mai 2012 à 23:15, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

> Hi Akim.
> 
> On 05/22/2012 11:11 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> 
>> Le 22 mai 2012 à 22:48, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
>> 
>>> This new behaviour is suboptimal, but will allow us to move yet more
>>> logic and processing from the automake scripts into the generated
>>> Makefiles.
>> 
>> To tell the truth, I would be happy if Automake-ng could tidy
>> build-aux more than it is today.  I personally like m4/ to be
>> actually build-aux/m4/, which AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR allows me
>> to do, but I also would like to move all these auxiliary executables
>> to build-aux/bin/.
>> 
> You can use the autoconf macro AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR for that, no?  Mainline
> Automake supports that already ...  Or am I missing something?

But then I expect to see non executables files in build-aux/bin/.
For instance

>    By default, Automake requires the file `texinfo.tex' to appear in
> the same directory as the `Makefile.am' file that lists the `.texi'
> files.  If you used `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR' in `configure.ac' (*note
> Finding `configure' Input: (autoconf)Input.), then `texinfo.tex' is
> looked for there.  In both cases, `automake' then supplies
> `texinfo.tex' if `--add-missing' is given, and takes care of its
> distribution.  However, if you set the `TEXINFO_TEX' variable (see
> below), it overrides the location of the file and turns off its
> installation into the source as well as its distribution.

But maybe it's the only one, and you are right, I can live with
that.  I'll try, thanks!