Re: How to install additional files in "make install"

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:10 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Ralf,
> 
> * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:50:09AM CEST:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:05 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:46:12AM CEST:
> > > 
> > > > dist_lib_DATA = libxxx.so
> > > 
> > > That won't get the right (execute) permissions of libxxx.so,
> > 
> > Adding an install-data-hook is another one.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > >  and automake complains
> > > | Makefile.am:1: `libdir' is not a legitimate directory for `DATA'
> > 
> > Ohh yeah - I forgot about this ole' bug in automake 
> > (IMO, automake is plain wrong on not letting other files go into
> > $libdir).
> 
> I agree that there should be a straightforward way to put files there.
> But it is right about complaining about the above line,
I disagree. *_DATA should take arbitrary data, no matter what it is and
let the user do with it whatever he wants.

IMO, automake is outsmarting itself, here.

> Ultimately, I guess another primary, or a prefix to _LIBRARIES or so,
> should be created to allow this sort of thing.
I don't think this would be wise.

Ralf