Re: [Fwd: Can nobase_pkgdata_DATA take directories? Does not seam so.]

[Sander Niemeijer]

On dinsdag, maa 9, 2004, at 23:04 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Friesenhahn 
wrote:

> Wildcards are for lazy programmers who are willing to allow wrong
> files to be built or distributed by accident.

I don't agree when it comes to a bunch of files (>100) that get 
generated automatically by a tool (such as documentation files by 
doxygen). You don't want to update such a list manually each time the 
list changes.
I'm not saying a simple wildcard system would be the solution, but some 
automation would definitely be in order.

> The existing Automake -hook targets provide package authors with
> considerable control over what gets distributed, installed, and
> uninstalled.  Since they can execute arbitrary shell code, wildcards
> can be supported for any target which supports -hook.
>
> Using run-time Makefile includes is not portable.

I hope you are referring to using 'include' within a Makefile and not 
the automake 'include' directive that I use within my Makefile.am (BTW, 
I'm aware that changing my include file will require a rerun of 
automake). The automake 'include' directive /is/ portable, right?

Regards,
Sander