Re: Creating some directory at install time.

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Lucas Brasilino wrote:
[snip]
>     Thanks a lot. It really helps. I've got another issue...
> which is quite philosophical. At another directory called
> 'example' I've got a number of XML docs that should be installed.
> So I created the following Makefile.am:
>
> exampledir = $(localstatedir)/lib/$(PACKAGE)
> example_DATA =     _default.xml \
>         http.xml \
>         pop.xml \
>         smtp.xml \
>         telnet.xml \
>         cvs.xml \
>         ftp.xml \
>         ldap.xml \
>         ssh.xml
>
>     Is that right using 'DATA' primitive with this type of file?
> Should I change 'exampledir' to 
> '$(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/$(PACKAGE) ?

Yes, although I think the documentation is shared rather than local 
state. So perhaps it should be $(sharedstatedir) or $(pkgdatadir) rather 
than $(localstatedir). See:

  info automake uniform

and:

  info automake data

You won't need to put $(DESTDIR) in exampledir, because automake will 
handle that for you. It does that, when it generates all the rules.

If you want the files in example_DATA to be distributed, you need to 
prefix it with "dist_". See:

  info automake data

Bye, Rich =]

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