* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:08:44PM CET:
Allan Caffee wrote:
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
There is another downside: up to now, one could use something like
foo_DATA =
to let $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) be created at installation time. This of
course no longer works, and as such is a backward incompatibility.
Was this ever a documented feature?
No as far as I know.
I don't recall, but I know it is widely used and therefore will cause
silent incompatibilities between the next automake version and its
predecessors.
To me personally, it's a severe functional regression.
Well, here we have an item where one's bug is another person's feature.
BTW, a 'make distcheck' or a 'make install' into a fresh prefix should
be able to uncover this incompatibility, so while it is silent, it is
not the most silent thing there is.
But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug
that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS?