Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alexander Pohoyda writes:
>  > I am unable to find a template to create a rule to install files from
>  > a directory which does not have a makefile itself.
>  > I need to process some files matching a mask (e.g. somedir/*.xpm)
>  > without having to list them all in a makefile.
>  > 
>  > There is an InstallMultiple(list,dest) macro, but it takes a file list
>  > as an argument, so that's exactly what I want to avoid.
>  > 
>  > I believe that this is quite a general task, so I dare to propose a
>  > new template. Please see the attached patch. I would appreciate any
>  > ideas about this patch or maybe there are good reasons not to have
>  > such a template? Better ways to do this?
> 
> I've looked all over the X sources and I was not able to find a case
> where we don't supply a list. However have you tried to use
> somedir/*.xpm  in InstallMultiple()? InstallMultiple()
> does a 
>      for i in $LIST; do...
> 
> if $LIST gets replaced by somedir/*.xpm it should do what you have in
> mind.

Yes, I have tried this. No, it does not do what I need.
Maybe it's shell specific, but it does definitely not work in
bash 2.05.

I can easily work around this problem including small.tmpl file with
a software, however it is strange that nobody needed such a feature
before.

Thank you very much for your reply anyway!

-- 
Alexander Pohoyda
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
_______________________________________________
Devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Reply via email to