>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Akim, > * Akim Demaille wrote on Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:47:41AM CET: >> >> The first thing I would like to do is to factor the >> calls to install, using "install FILES... DIR". > The first thing you should do then is get the GNU Coding Standards changed to > allow this, so that Automake can still conform to them. They currently state > (see make-stds.texi): >> Always use a file name, not a directory name, as the second argument of >> the installation commands. Use a separate command for each file to be >> installed. Done. | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) | Subject: Re: installing multiple files at once | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:46:14 -0600 | X-Sent: 1 day, 8 hours, 32 minutes ago | | [...] | | --- make-stds.texi.~1.49.~ 2007-09-01 15:53:02.000000000 -0700 | +++ make-stds.texi 2007-11-28 15:43:43.000000000 -0800 | @@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -Always use a file name, not a directory name, as the second argument of | -the installation commands. Use a separate command for each file to be | -installed. | +It is acceptable, but not required, to install multiple files in one | +command, with the final argument being a directory, as in: | + | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) foo bar baz $(bindir) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] example | | | How about that? | | karl
