On Saturday 2009-04-18 22:06, Russ Allbery wrote: >Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> writes: >> Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes: > >>> [1] I'm asking because Automake 1.11 will reliably not install files if >>> their respective installation directory is empty. This is not yet >>> functional in Automake 1.10.2. The test for emptiness in 1.11 will not >>> consider $(DESTDIR) of course, only $(bindir) etc. >> >> I must have misunderstood this, since it sounds like it would potentially >> break any system where each binary package is installed into a separate >> tree. For example, stow packages are routinely installed with: >> >> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local >> make >> make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/package-version >> >> DESTDIR cannot easily be used here because the stow layout should have >> simple bin, etc, lib, etc. directories directly under that directory, not >> with an extra /usr/local in the way. > >Oh, you mean if the value of the *variable* is empty (following the >thread), not the directory itself. D'oh, sorry, that should have been >obvious to me from context. Never mind. :)
No, I also thought of empty directories. Quote from above: "respective installation directory is empty.". But the puzzling thing was that when using DESTDIR=$foo, $foo would normally be empty anyways (in automated build systems like lbuild/koji/etc.)
