On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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).
I believe a footnote mentionning the problem will be sufficient with a solution. > 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
