Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> writes:
> [ dropping bug-coreutils ]
Dropping down to just the automake list.
> [1] I'm asking because Automake 1.11 will reliably not install files if
> their respective installation directory is empty. This is not yet
> functional in Automake 1.10.2. The test for emptiness in 1.11 will not
> consider $(DESTDIR) of course, only $(bindir) etc.
I must have misunderstood this, since it sounds like it would potentially
break any system where each binary package is installed into a separate
tree. For example, stow packages are routinely installed with:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/package-version
DESTDIR cannot easily be used here because the stow layout should have
simple bin, etc, lib, etc. directories directly under that directory, not
with an extra /usr/local in the way.
--
Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
