Reference to thread: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-04/msg00001.html> Reference to parent message: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-04/msg00011.html>
On Friday 01 April 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:13:19PM CEST: > > > On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > Patch 2: > > > > - Should `--install -I $dir' also create an absolute $dir? > > > > > > > I think so. Why shouldn't it? > > > > Well, I don't understand what a legitimate use case would be, that's > > why. You need a relative path anyway for --install to copy files there. > > aclocal won't install to an absolute first -I directory, > > Unfortunately, this is not the case (even if such a behaviour is documented). For example, with aclocal 1.11.1: $ cd /tmp $ mkdir foo.dir $ cd foo.dir $ echo 'AC_INIT(x,0) AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' > configure.ac $ mkdir m4 $ aclocal --install -I `pwd`/m4 aclocal: installing `/tmp/foo.dir/m4/libtool.m4' from `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' aclocal: installing `/tmp/foo.dir/m4/ltoptions.m4' from `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' aclocal: installing `/tmp/foo.dir/m4/ltsugar.m4' from `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' aclocal: installing `/tmp/foo.dir/m4/ltversion.m4' from `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' aclocal: installing `/tmp/foo.dir/m4/lt~obsolete.m4' from `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' $ ls -l m4 total 292 -rw-r--r-- 1 stefano stefano 260519 Apr 1 20:06 libtool.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 stefano stefano 11938 Apr 1 20:06 ltoptions.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 stefano stefano 4372 Apr 1 20:06 ltsugar.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 stefano stefano 703 Apr 1 20:06 ltversion.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 stefano stefano 5707 Apr 1 20:06 lt~obsolete.m4 The bug is present also in maint; see the attached testcase which should be an exposer. Regards, Stefano
aclocal-install-absdir.test
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