bug#11030: should an empty "pkgdata_DATA" cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by "make install"?

2012-03-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[dropping automake, adding automake-patches] On 03/16/2012 11:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > You have convinced me that this behaviour is more a bug than a feature. > And here is a patch (for maint) that should settle the issue. I will push by tomorrow if there is no objection. Regards,

bug#10816: [PATCH] aclocal: create local directory where to install m4 files

2012-03-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/15/2012 08:57 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Fixes automake bug#8168 and bug#10816. > > A call like "aclocal -I m4 --install" used to fail if the 'm4' > directory wasn't pre-existing. This could be particularly > annoying when running in a checked-out version from a VCS like > git, which do

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/12/2012 02:43 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 03/12/2012 12:21 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: >> >> To summarize: 'nodist_bin_SCRIPTS =' is an extremely convenient way to >> ensure that $(bindir) -- or rather $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) -- exists. >> > I agree, and in fact I regard this as a featur