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Re: Do not create conditional installation directories


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Do not create conditional installation directories
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:07:33 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:43:03AM CET:
> I have a patch to let 'make install' not create installation directories
> in which no files will end up.  This half-fixes a long-standing TODO
> item; so far, one had to work around this with conditionals and hacks in
> order to achieve it.
> 
> However, there is a downside: this patch does not fix the TODO item for
> the 'installdirs' target (yet).  Do you still think it's worthwhile to
> have, and ok if we leave installdirs to be fixed in a later version?

There is another downside: up to now, one could use something like
  foo_DATA =

to let $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) be created at installation time.  This of
course no longer works, and as such is a backward incompatibility.

The patch is still missing a documentation update.  I suppose we need to
document an alternative.

Cheers,
Ralf




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