On Monday 26 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Saturday 24 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > On Thursday 22 September 2011, Nick Bowler wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > Hi Nick, thanks for the report. > > > > > I noticed a problem testing the uninstall target of my > > > automake-generated Makefiles. If the install prefix does not exist > > > before installation, automake will create the necessary directories. > > > But if you run a plain "make install-data" (without make install-exec), > > > the directories for executables are (unsurprisingly) not created. The > > > problem is that "make uninstall" fails in this case: > > > > > I'm not yet sure whether this should be considered a bug or a feature... > > I'm inclined to agree with you that it's more of a bug though, so I'll > > push the attached patch to maint in a few days if nobody objects. This > > change is not completely obvious, so any review would be appreciated. > > > > Notice that the test coverage added by the patch is far from perfect, but > > I'd rather improve it in the `testsuite-work' branch only, so that I'll > > be able to use TAP and won't be forced to write 10 or so new "sister > > tests" instead. > > > > Thanks, > > Stefano > > > Oops, the patch as I've pushed it was causing "make maintainer-check" to fail. I've pushed the attached follow-up to fix this.
Sorry for the noise, Stefano
From a2803e6a0d65e5124dd12d89acab61ac8fc11a53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <a2803e6a0d65e5124dd12d89acab61ac8fc11a53.1317208837.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:17:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)' * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): Use `$(am__cd)', not plain `cd'. --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ lib/am/inst-vars.am | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4347a89..c3b041d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2011-09-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> + + maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)' + * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): Use + `$(am__cd)', not plain `cd'. + 2011-09-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> uninstall: "make uninstall" before "make install" works diff --git a/lib/am/inst-vars.am b/lib/am/inst-vars.am index 477513f..a807f79 100644 --- a/lib/am/inst-vars.am +++ b/lib/am/inst-vars.am @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ am__uninstall_files_from_dir = { \ ## is indeed desired and welcome (better to fail loudly thasn silently). || { test ! -d "$$dir" && test ! -f "$$dir" && test ! -r "$$dir"; } \ || { echo " ( cd '$$dir' && rm -f" $$files ")"; \ - cd "$$dir" && rm -f $$files; }; \ + $(am__cd) "$$dir" && rm -f $$files; }; \ } endif %?FIRST% -- 1.7.2.3