A problem (bug) in automake (1.10 and earlier version) + patch

[Peter Breitenlohner]

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Attached is a tiny patch addressing this problem

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Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:49:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: A problem (bug) in automake (1.10 and earlier version)

I have noticed the following problem (bug) in automake-1.10:

(1) A package (ImageMagick-6.3.0) uses configure to generate manpages with
substitutions (e.g., xxxx.1 from xxxx.1.in) but also distributes the
generated manpages (with different substitutions).

(2) The automake-generated rule to install manpages looks for the files to
install FIRST under ${srcdir} and THEN under the current directory.

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The effect of (1)+(2) is, that the manpages with the wrong substitutions are
installed.

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(1) is certainly not the right way to do things.

On the other hand I would think that (2) is equally wrong. Whenever a file
is to be installed, then the automake-generated rules should FIRST look for
that file in the current directory and THEN under ${srcdir}!

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Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

automake-1.10-patch
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