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From: | Akim Demaille |
Subject: | Re: Do not create conditional installation directories |
Date: | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:59:26 +0100 |
Le 18 mars 09 à 22:28, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit :
* Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:31:50PM CET:"RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bugthat bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS?My focus was more about an empty $(foodir), not an empty $(foo_DATA).Can you describe situations where an empty $(foodir) happens? Is this a bug? Is this a regression?
My message was about make support for an empty $(foodir) (made empty on purpose) to mean that make install should skip all foo primaries. I had included the code to show that currently in such a situation, Automake is schizophrenic: it refuses to invoke mkdir when the directory name is empty, but it agrees to in "it". When DESTDIR is set it turns out the mean something (yet we did not mkdir it :).
This behavior is useless, and I was claiming that making support of "$ (foodir) is empty means don't install anything from it" would make some things simpler. But I have not a strong need for this.
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