bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 10997 + patch close 10997 thanks On 03/17/2012 08:48 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 03/12/2012 02:43 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 03/12/2012 12:21 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: To summarize: 'nodist_bin_SCRIPTS =' is an extremely convenient way to ensure that $(bindir) -- or rather

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/12/2012 02:43 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 03/12/2012 12:21 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: To summarize: 'nodist_bin_SCRIPTS =' is an extremely convenient way to ensure that $(bindir) -- or rather $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) -- exists. I agree, and in fact I regard this as a feature (which

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-12 Thread Daiki Ueno
I got a bug report for my package, which conditionally installs some scripts into pkglibexecdir like this: if ENABLE_FOO pkglibexec_SCRIPTS = bar endif where pkglibexec* is not referred outside of if...endif. When make install, automake creates pkglibexecdir even when ENABLE_FOO is false. I'm

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
severity 10997 minor thanks Hi Daiki, thanks for the report. On 03/12/2012 05:55 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote: I got a bug report for my package, which conditionally installs some scripts into pkglibexecdir like this: if ENABLE_FOO pkglibexec_SCRIPTS = bar endif where pkglibexec* is not

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-12 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 03/12/2012 05:55 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote: I got a bug report for my package, which conditionally installs some scripts into pkglibexecdir like this: if ENABLE_FOO pkglibexec_SCRIPTS = bar endif where pkglibexec* is not referred outside of

bug#10997: pkglibexecdir is unconditionally created when make install

2012-03-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/12/2012 12:21 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: Fixing this particular case might be fine, but please watch out. In the quite similar (unconditional) case pkglibexec_SCRIPTS = one might actually expect that that $(pkglibexecdir) is created unconditionally. [SNIP] To summarize: