Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

[Akim Demaille]

Le 19 mars 09 à 15:01, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :

> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * 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  
> > > bug
> > > > that 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?
> The classic use case are packages which use a directory but not put  
> any files into it.

The confusion is that I am referring to the emptiness of the directory  
name (what I named an empty $(foodir)), while you are referring to an  
empty directory (what I named an empty $(foo_DATA)).

I'm talking about

AC_SUBST([foodir], [])