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FYI: HEAD: Fix "make install"


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: FYI: HEAD: Fix "make install"
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:38:05 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:02:32PM CEST:
> OK, here's the long-awaited proposal for a fixed "make install" for CVS
> HEAD.  I won't commit it until I've tested it on several architectures,
> but I'll post it for you to read and complain if necessary.

> Notes:
> - I'm a bit unsure whether cleaning pkgdatadir before install is even
>   allowed: the user could have pre-created a directory structure with
>   permissions according to her needs.  Should I omit that rm -rf?

I looked a bit into standards, and I believe we're ok if we change that
to
  -rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/*
so that we keep the permissions of the toplevel directory if it was
already present before.

> What do you think?

No comments at all, so I have applied the patch to HEAD with above small
change.

Cheers,
Ralf

>         * Makefile.am: Install libltdl data files in correct order.
>         Use pre-defined programs for installation; use NORMAL_INSTALL
>         and NORMAL_UNINSTALL.  Really fix ownership and timestamp
>         problems.  Fix typo in uninstallation of aclocal files.
>         Reported by Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden> and
>         Charles Wilson <address@hidden>.




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