On 15/07/2011, at 5:30 AM, Jie Zhang wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jie Zhang <jzhang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Steve Bennett <ste...@workware.net.au> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 14/07/2011, at 7:19 PM, Spencer Oliver wrote:
>>>> This is why i mentioned before about adding a configure option to
>>>> jimtcl, something like --noinstall
>>> 
>>> It seems weird to have a configure option which causes 'make install'
>>> to not install. Seems like it will just confuse other users of jimtcl.
>>> 
>> Maybe with a clear help documentation and a good default setting, it
>> will not be so confusing. I think we can have
>> --disable-install-jimtcl, default off, i.e, --enable-install-jimtcl,
>> for jimtcl. Then turn it on in OpenOCD. The help documentation could
>> be
>> 
>>  --disable-install-jimtcl  controls installation of jimctl and related 
>> headers.
>>                            usually used when jimctl is embeded in
>> another program.
>> 
>> I'm also wondering if it's a good idea to make jimtcl use automake,
>> which should make implementing this easier.
>> 
> Jim uses autosetup instead of autoconf. So it does not make much sense
> to use automake.
> 
> Anyway I think Spencer's idea about adding a configure option to
> disable Jim installation is good. So I implemented it. I change the
> option name to "--disable-install-jim" to save 3 characters.
> 
> Three patches are attached:
> 
> jim-configure-disable-install.diff is for upstream Jim
> openocd-jim-configure-disable-install.diff is for Jim in OpenOCD
> openocd-dont-install-jimtcl.diff makes OpenOCD to use the new added
> configure option.

If there is no way to make automake do this then I guess we have no choice.
I have pushed something similar to git.

Cheers,
Steve

> 
> Regards,
> Jie
> <jim-configure-disable-install.diff><openocd-jim-configure-disable-install.diff><openocd-disable-install-jim.diff>

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