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Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "m
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"? |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:23:13 +0100 |
[dropping automake list]
On 03/13/2012 01:30 PM, 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?
>
We finally decided that the older behaviour was a bug. We've thus fixed it
(in the automake maint branch, fix to appear in automake 1.11.4), and I now
propose the attached patch against gnulib-tool. OK to push?
Regards,
Stefano
0001-gnulib-tool-fix-imprecise-comments-w.r.t.-an-automak.patch
Description: Text Data
- [PATCH] gnulib-tool: fix imprecise comments, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/03/13
- Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: fix imprecise comments, Bruno Haible, 2012/03/13
- Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"?,
Stefano Lattarini <=
- Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"?, Bruno Haible, 2012/03/21
- Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"?, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/03/23
- Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"?, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/23
- Re: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"?, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/03/23