* 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.