Re: pre and post install targets

[Jose-Marcio]

Hello Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Jose-Marcio wrote on Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:46:29PM CEST:

> Well, one reason I'm hesitant is that I think most such pre- or post-
> actions are pretty system-dependent, more so than other tasks routinely
> done in makefiles.  For example, they would often depend on the type of
> GNU/Linux distribution used, rather than only the config.guess triple.
> This makes it more attractive to keep them in a separate file, as you
> say a small shell script, or a debian/rules entry, or a .rpm stanza or
> so.

In fact, the real reason, for me, to have another target, is to reuse 
some configuration values defined during "configure" run, such as 
prefix, all dirs (sysconfdir, datadir, sbindir, ... ). Maybe it could be 
interesting to create some kind of "config.vars" file, which could be 
invoked by another user defined script to setup all variables.
        . config.vars

But this is more related to autoconf than to automake.

Cheers,

José-Marcio

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