Re: Creating a link with automake

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 12:44:53PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

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

With automake, this could also be written as

install-exec-local:
        $(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
        $(LN_S) $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/croco.php $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/croco

I'm not sure about the real world significance of this, but there is
probably a historical reason why there would be variables defined for these
commands.

   Simon