On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> While I was packaging cyrus-sasl I ran into an odd issue with the installed
> documentation. I attempted to add doc/*.html to the install_docs variable,
> this failed. Oddly doc/*.fig worked - but there was only one doc/*.fig file
> ChangeLog* also worked, and there was only one ChangeLog file. It looks
> like variable expansion occurs at -f ${srcdir}/$f in the for loop, which
> looks broken to me (I am not a shell expert).
You're right, it *is* broken. It was never intended to be used with
subdirectories, so I never tested it. I'll try to come up with a way of
accomodating subdirs shortly.
> In the end I changed the contents of install_docs to be all of the form
> ${srcdir}/<filename> and remove the ${srcdir}/ from the two lines inside the
> for loop where they are actually installed. This fixed the problem,
> although now that I look again, I can't remember why.
>
> Perhaps someone with some decent shell experience can see the best solution
> here?
Thanks for the heads-up.
Igor
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