Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh schrieb am 30.03.2009 18:43: >> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:48 +0200 >> Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> else >>> for x in AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README; do >>> if [ -e ${x} ]; then >> Is -e really better than -s? >> > > I think -s should be used here. I have seen projects out there which > don't use the mandatory autotools files (INSTALL, NEWS, README, AUTHORS, > ChangeLog, COPYING) at all or use other files than these. So they just > place an empty file there to make automake happy instead of using the > --foreign option. Besides that it makes no sense to install empty > documentation files at all. >
portage don't install empty files (they are ignored) so it would be painless. Mounir