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From: | Robert Boehne |
Subject: | Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"? |
Date: | Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:55:56 -0500 |
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On 03/13/12 07:30, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
[CC:ing Ralf, as I'd like to hear his opinion here] Reference: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-03/msg00078.html> On 03/13/2012 01:14 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:Now that I think about it, I'm not sure whether it was done "by design" from the beginning,And I also missed Ralf's answer here: <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gsasl.general/52> So we're in a sort of a tie here: some users think that the current Automake behaviour is a feature (and I lean toward that position), other ones (with Ralf among them, apparently) believe it's a bug. Hmmm. What now? Regards, Stefano
I would agree with the "feature" camp. Users should be able to create an empty $(pkgdatadir) - suppose that empty directory is populated by other methods. They should also be able to not create $(pkgdatadir) as well as a non-empty $(pkgdatadir).
IMHO - whether this was by design or by accident isn't important. What's more important is that the behavior is intuitive, and this behavior (to me) is intuitive.
Robert Boehne
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