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Attached is a tiny patch addressing this problem
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Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:49:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: bug-automake@gnu.org
Subject: A problem (bug) in automake (1.10 and earlier version)
I have noticed the following problem (bug) in automake-1.10:
(1) A package (ImageMagick-6.3.0) uses configure to generate manpages with
substitutions (e.g., xxxx.1 from xxxx.1.in) but also distributes the
generated manpages (with different substitutions).
(2) The automake-generated rule to install manpages looks for the files to
install FIRST under ${srcdir} and THEN under the current directory.
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The effect of (1)+(2) is, that the manpages with the wrong substitutions are
installed.
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(1) is certainly not the right way to do things.
On the other hand I would think that (2) is equally wrong. Whenever a file
is to be installed, then the automake-generated rules should FIRST look for
that file in the current directory and THEN under ${srcdir}!
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Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>diff -ur -N automake-1.10.orig/lib/am/mans.am automake-1.10/lib/am/mans.am
--- automake-1.10.orig/lib/am/mans.am 2006-08-19 16:09:06.000000000 +0200
+++ automake-1.10/lib/am/mans.am 2006-10-24 16:53:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
done; \
for i in $$list; do \
## Find the file.
- if test -f $(srcdir)/$$i; then file=$(srcdir)/$$i; \
- else file=$$i; fi; \
+ if test -f $$i; then file=$$i; \
+ else file=$(srcdir)/$$i; fi; \
## Change the extension if needed.
ext=`echo $$i | sed -e 's/^.*\\.//'`; \
case "$$ext" in \
