Question: how best to respect --program-suffix, --program-prefix, --program-transform-name in user-defined rules for installing?
Details: For Texinfo, I install makeinfo as a symlink to texi2any in the install-exec-hook (like the example in the Extending node of the automake manual): install-exec-hook: rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/makeinfo -$(LN_S) texi2any $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/makeinfo However, clearly this ignores any specified program transformations. Glenn (Morris, cc'd) reported as follows: I configured texinfo-5.2 like this: ./configure --program-suffix"-5" make install created a broken link in bin/: makeinfo -> texi2any This should be: makeinfo-5 > texi2any-5 True enough. So my question is, how best to deal with it? I mean, I can look at the output and hack the same sed invocations that automake inserts into Makefile.in into my install rule. But I wonder if there is a better way, perhaps using something other than install-exec-hook. Any advice? Other Automake-using programs to look at for emulation purposes? (I looked at a few without much luck.) I see that Emacs does stuff like this: # Program name transformation. TRANSFORM = @program_transform_name@ # What emacs should be called when installed. EMACS_NAME = `echo emacs | sed '$(TRANSFORM)'` which seems sensible enough, but Emacs only uses autoconf, not automake. Not sure that using @program_transform_name@ is the best way to go. In any case, I suggest this issue be addressed in either the Renaming or Extending node of the manual (with a pointer from the other one). At least, those are the places I found that seemed likely to be relevant. If it's in the manual somewhere else, please let me know. I couldn't find anything specific about this in general web searches, stackexchange, etc., either, which surprised me, since surely this come up before in all these many years. Perhaps I couldn't figure out the right thing to search for. Thanks, Karl