Re: installing documentation one level higher

[Peter Johansson]

On 11/8/21 9:55 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My current rule (in the top-level `Makefile.am`) is
> > >
> > >     nobase_dist_doc_DATA = doc/bar.html \
> > >                            doc/img/baz.png
> > I think you wanna get rid of the 'nobase_' prefix (but haven't
> > tested).
> If I do that, all files are installed into the same directory,
> according to the documentation.

Correct. Sorry about that.


> This is not what I want; images
> should still be in the `img` subdirectory.
>
> A solution to the problem is the 'install-data-hook' target to move up
> all documentation files and directories by one level (I haven't tried
> this yet, though).  I just wonder whether there is a better, more
> 'natural' one.

An alternative approach would be the following snippet:


dist_doc_DATA = doc/bar.html

doc_imgdir = $(docdir)/img
dist_doc_img_DATA = doc/img/baz.png


Cheers,

Peter