Re: automake-1.9.6: wrong handling of self-defined directories

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:48:28PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Adrian,

Hi Ralf,

>...
> [ secondbin_PROGRAMS gets installed through install-data, not install-exec ]
> *snip*
> > automake knows that secondbin_PROGRAMS contains programs, and it should 
> > therefore call the install target from install-exec-am.
> 
> I'm not really sure how Automake /should/ behave (and I would have
> expected the same thing you have), but it does behave according to
> its documentation.  Quoting 'info Automake Install':
> 
> |    Variables using the standard directory prefixes `data', `info',
> | `man', `include', `oldinclude', `pkgdata', or `pkginclude' (e.g.
> | `data_DATA') are installed by `install-data'.
> | 
> |    Variables using the standard directory prefixes `bin', `sbin',
> | `libexec', `sysconf', `localstate', `lib', or `pkglib' (e.g.
> | `bin_PROGRAMS') are installed by `install-exec'.
> | 
> |    Any variable using a user-defined directory prefix with `exec' in
> | the name (e.g. `myexecbin_PROGRAMS') is installed by `install-exec'.
> | All other user-defined prefixes are installed by `install-data'.
> 
> So, try `secondexecbindir' as variable name instead.  :)

ah thanks, I missed this part of the documentation.

I'd still prefer this derived from the primary instead from a magical 
string in the prefix, but this is then a feature request and not a bug.

> Cheers,
> Ralf

cu
Adrian

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