Re: Automake 1.10 - No rule to make target '-c', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.

[Craig Sanders]

Hi Ralf.

It appears that I told a small lie, I actually had INSTALL and friends defined 
as follows ;

INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c
INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}
INSTALL_SCRIPT = ${INSTALL}
INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c -s

To answer one of your questions, no, I didn't set the variable DATA within the 
culprit Makefile.am. I am still a bit perplexed however as to why make choked 
on the '-c' switch that appears in the INSTALL variable.

With regards to the NEWS file, I didn't even think to have a read through it - 
silly me. I shall remember this for next time.

Thanks once again for your help, it is most appreciated.


- Craig

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:> 
> Hello Craig,
> 
> * Craig Sanders wrote on Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:39:11AM CEST:
>>
>> Thankyou for your prompt response to my two queries last week.
>>
>> I think I have solved my own problems. One of the problems was that I
>> had defined the variable ;
>>
>>   INSTALL = install -c -m 644
> 
> Above line isn't wrong.  The line
> | DATA = $(INSTALL_DATA)
> 
> however is: DATA is, well, data.  INSTALL_DATA is a program.
> Sorry I overlooked this the last time.
> 
>> in one of my Makefile.am files. The reason I did this was because I
>> was trying to implement an install-pdf target in the generated
>> Makefiles. However it now appears that Autoconf 2.61 and Automake 1.10
>> generate this target automatically. Am I correct when I say that older
>> versions of the Autotools did not generate install- style targets
>> automatically?
> 
> Almost.  Quoting from Automake 1.10 NEWS file:
> | * New installation targets:
> |
> |   - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
> |       install-dvi
> |       install-html
> |       install-ps
> |       install-pdf
> |     By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
> |     You can customize them with *-local variants:
> |       install-dvi-local
> |       install-html-local
> |       install-ps-local
> |       install-pdf-local
> 
> install-info was already handled before, as of course -data and -exec.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> 
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