Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-30 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 23 mars 09 à 23:31, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : I assume these two patches implement what you, Akim, desire, while they do not touch the functionality that you, Ralf, would like not to be destroyed. Do you both agree? This is perfect for me, thanks a lot Ralf!

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:31:29PM CET: > > I assume these two patches implement what you, Akim, desire, while they > do not touch the functionality that you, Ralf, would like not to be > destroyed. Do you both agree? I have pushed these two patches to master now. (I wil

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Akim Demaille wrote on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:35:20PM CET: > The confusion is that I am referring to the emptiness of the directory > name (what I named an empty $(foodir)), while you are referring to an > empty directory (what I named an empty $(foo_DATA)). > > I'm talking about > > AC_SUBS

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 19 mars 09 à 15:01, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:31:50PM CET: "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: > But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug > that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:01:45PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:31:50PM CET: >> >> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: >> >>> > But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug >>> >

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:31:50PM CET: "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: > But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug > that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS? My focus was mor

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 18 mars 09 à 22:28, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : * Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:31:50PM CET: "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS? My

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Akim Demaille wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:31:50PM CET: > >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > > But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug > > that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS? > > My focus was more about an empty $(foodi

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-18 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: > But the question remains: how do you think we should address the bug > that bothers Akim, other than by this patch and a big warning in NEWS? My focus was more about an empty $(foodir), not an empty $(foo_DATA). I was suggesting that it would be nice that

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:08:44PM CET: Allan Caffee wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: There is another downside: up to now, one could use something like foo_DATA = to let $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) be created at install

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:08:44PM CET: > Allan Caffee wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> There is another downside: up to now, one could use something like >>> foo_DATA = >>> >>> to let $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) be created at installation time. This of >>

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Allan Caffee wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:43:03AM CET: I have a patch to let 'make install' not create installation directories in which no files will end up. This half-fixes a long-standing TODO item; so far, one had to

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-15 Thread Allan Caffee
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:43:03AM CET: > > I have a patch to let 'make install' not create installation directories > > in which no files will end up. This half-fixes a long-standing TODO > > item; so far, one had to work aroun

Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:43:03AM CET: > I have a patch to let 'make install' not create installation directories > in which no files will end up. This half-fixes a long-standing TODO > item; so far, one had to work around this with conditionals and hacks in > order to ach

Do not create conditional installation directories

2009-03-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
es not fix the TODO item for the 'installdirs' target (yet). Do you still think it's worthwhile to have, and ok if we leave installdirs to be fixed in a later version? Thanks Akim for reminding me of this issue, Ralf Do not create conditional installation directories. TODO: