Re: Questions...

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Sonntag, den 11.02.2007, 23:24 -0300 schrieb Matí­as Alejandro
Torres:

[..] 
> I figure out my two questions... almost, let's say I want to copy one 
> whole directory recursively
> 
> Makefile.am
> 
> contactsdatadir = ${prefix}/share/applications/contacts
> contactsdata_DATA = \
>     themes

$(prefix)/share/applications is a directory containing .desktop files
(freedesktop.org specification) under Linux. You don't want to install
anything else than .desktop files there. Are you looking for
$(prefix)/share/contacts or $(pkgdatadir) (if you want to install
architecture-independent package-specific data, which I guess you want)
or $(prefix)/share/icons (which is a themes-directory)?

> themes is that directory but when I try to install it it throws me :
> 
> test -z "/usr/local/share/applications/contacts" || mkdir -p -- 
> "/usr/local/share/applications/contacts"
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './themes' 
> '/usr/local/share/applications/contacts/themes'
> /usr/bin/install: se omite el directorio `./themes'
> make[2]: *** [install-contactsdataDATA] Error 1
> 
> So what do i need to do to copy that directory recursively? or else.. 
> what do i need to do to create the themes directory so i can copy 
> individual files?

A simple approach is:

contactsdatadir = ${pkgdatadir}/themes
contactsdata_DATA = themes/*.*

if that directory does not contain any sub-directories. An alternative
and IMO the only way to recursively copy a whole directory (_without_
using Makefiles for every sub-directory) with sub-dirs is to write your
own small piece of code and put it into the install-data-local target in
your Makefile.am. Note, that your code should respect e.g. the DESTDIR
variable. AFAIK there is no macro for recursively copying a directory
(or I never found it :)).

Regards, Daniel