[ Sorry for the late reply, I forgot this mail in my postponed
mailbox ]
Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Well, I offered help, because I had to edit `Makefile' in order
> to install CVS freeboters (`[a-z]*' matches `CVS', which is a
> directory and won't install).
Which version of install(1) do you use? In POSIX regular expressions
[a-z] does not match C, just the ASCII character range from 97 to
122. An exemplary run with install(1) from the GNU coreutils:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls
A a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] install [a-z]* ~/foo2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls ../foo2
a
> Automake allows one to avoid such
> things easily and automates certain tasks like generating a
> distribution tarball or making tags.
automake is a mess. The created output is close to unreadable and
they can't even maintain downwards compatibility. All necessary
options can be done in plain make as well.
I just added a "make release" target to the Makefile.
> My opinion is that "4. Edit the Makefile" is not an acceptable
> phrase for a project's README. But it's your project after all.
Fixed in CVS. There's now a configure script which supports
./configure --prefix=/usr
Cheers,
Moritz
