tags 14177 + moreinfo severity 14177 minor stop Hello Nick, Bastien, sorry for the delay.
On 04/11/2013 03:33 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2013-04-11 01:28 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> The make code fragment at >> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Extending.html#Extending >> does not work as expected if you use --program-suffix=-hdr : >> >> >> >> install-exec-hook: >> cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) && \ >> mv -f prog$(EXEEXT) prog-$(VERSION)$(EXEEXT) && \ >> $(LN_S) prog-$(VERSION)$(EXEEXT) prog$(EXEEXT) >> >> >> error: >> >> mv: cannot stat `./animate': No such file or directory >> mv: cannot stat `./compare': No such file or directory >> mv: cannot stat `./composite': No such file or directory >> >> Could you please correct the example code and explain us how to be >> compatible? > > The suffix feature (partially) come from Autoconf; see ยง15.7 "Trans- > forming Program Names When Installing"[1] of the autoconf manual. You > are correct that this example in the Automake manual is broken if the > user decides to use the feature. > > The transformation is communicated to the Makefile as a sed program, so > I think you should be able to make it work with something like this > (untested): > > install-exec-hook: > instprog=`echo prog | sed '$(program_transform_name)'`; \ > cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) && \ > mv -f $$instprog$(EXEEXT) $$instprog-$(VERSION)$(EXEEXT) && \ > $(LN_S) $$instprog-$(VERSION)$(EXEEXT) $$instprog$(EXEEXT) > Thank you Nick for providing this code. However, I'm not really convinced that it would be worth to additionally complicate the example in the manual to cater to the seldom-used "program name transformation" feature (which I actually believe is a misfeature in several respects, but that's something for another thread). Still, I'd like to hear the community's opinion on this before committing to a decision, so for the moment being I'm tagging this report with "more info required" rather than with "will not fix". > [1] https://gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Transforming-Names > > Hope that helps, Thanks, Stefano