> > Even simpler -- it works for wildcards aiming from a single target > directory to a single source directory, i.e., it won't magically flatten a > directory tree for you, you'll have to use "find" for that... > > If you need to copy directory structures using the install_docs mechanism, > I suppose it could be done with something like the patch below -- give it > a shot. You will have to put a "/" after each directory that you want > copied as a tree. The flattening is a bit harder, but still doable. >
Since you're just passing this list of files to install, install puts them all in the one folder - hence 'flattening' everything. The / trick is a nice way to support recursive folder contents, if that was what you wanted (my particular case has no need for that, its directory structure is fairly flat). In my version, I ended up making a separate install_docs for each target directory - since there was only 2 target directories I wanted, this was no real issue. My original bug report was that wildcards were not working, that is fixed. The concept I had which is not addressed is where defining doc/*.html copies into /usr/share/doc/<package>/doc/ rather then /usr/share/doc/<package> - However such things are selective, some people might want the later in some cases others the former. My own case, I ended up doing both (to separate main docs from the docs for a specific subprogram). Not sure if addressing this issue is worthwhile, there are too many options as to what might be wanted. Regards, Gareth Pearce
