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 feature (which automake has been known > to use in its own build system for some time). > I've now changed my mind, and started to consider this behaviour as a bug; see automake bug#11030:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11030> A fix to that will obviously fix the present bug as well. Regards, Stefano