Re: distcheck and uninstall

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 08:33 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > No, I don't, but automake/NEWS indicates that it should've been around > 1.7, and 'git show Release-1-7:lib/am/distdir.am' looks good, too. Thanks again, Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: distcheck and uninstall

2009-09-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Robert Collins wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 08:30:03AM CEST: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 08:24 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Robert Collins wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:16:25AM CEST: > > > It would be nice if there was an option to tell automake not to (do > > > 'uninstall' as part of dist

Re: distcheck and uninstall

2009-09-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Robert, * Robert Collins wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:16:25AM CEST: > It would be nice if there was an option to tell automake not to (do > 'uninstall' as part of distcheck | require that uninstall leaves no > files behind) You can do the latter by overriding either distuninstallcheck r

Re: distcheck and uninstall

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 08:24 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Robert, > > * Robert Collins wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:16:25AM CEST: > > It would be nice if there was an option to tell automake not to (do > > 'uninstall' as part of distcheck | require that uninstall leaves no > > files be

distcheck and uninstall

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
It would be nice if there was an option to tell automake not to (do 'uninstall' as part of distcheck | require that uninstall leaves no files behind) distcheck is very useful, it catches many distribution related bugs like missing EXTRA_DIST and so on. However, uninstall as a target is much less