* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:08:44PM CET: > Allan Caffee wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> There is another downside: up to now, one could use something like >>> foo_DATA = >>> >>> to let $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) be created at installation time. This of >>> course no longer works, and as such is a backward incompatibility. >> >> Was this ever a documented feature?
No as far as I know. > I don't recall, but I know it is widely used and therefore will cause > silent incompatibilities between the next automake version and its > predecessors. > > To me personally, it's a severe functional regression. Well, here we have an item where one's bug is another person's feature. BTW, a 'make distcheck' or a 'make install' into a fresh prefix should be able to uncover this incompatibility, so while it is silent, it is not the most silent thing there is. But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS? Thanks, Ralf
