Re: Creating a link with automake

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Bernhard Seckinger wrote:

> I've got a program, that contains some php-script frontend (cli not web)
> (and other stuff, which is irrelevant here). I've put the php-scripts into
> $pkgdatadir. Now I'd like to have a link from $bindir to the main script i.e.
>
> ln -s ${pkgdatadir}/croco.php ${bindir}/croco
>
> To do this I've added to the Makefile.ac the following:
>
> install-exec-local:
>    mkdir -p ${bindir}
>    ln -s ${pkgdatadir}/croco.php ${bindir}/croco
>
> When using "make install" this works. But when I run "make distcheck" I get an
> error, telling that I'm not allowed to create the ${bindir}. I've allready
> tried to replace the mkdir command with
>
>    ${srcdir}/../install-sh -d ${bindir}
>
> which is probably architecture-independend, but I still get a similar error.
>
> Does anyone know, how to do this?

You need to add support for the DESTDIR environment variable, which 
specifies an alternate directory path to install into.  Perhaps this 
will work:

install-exec-local:
        mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${bindir}
        ln -s ${DESTDIR}${pkgdatadir}/croco.php ${DESTDIR}${bindir}/croco

Bob
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