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Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory


From: Stefano Lattarini
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 13:08:13 +0100
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On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > +pkglib_PROGRAMS = foo
> > > +doc_LIBRARIES = libquux.a
> 
> Another nit: can we find less obviously bogus combinations that users
> might actually want to use?  It is sometimes necessary to put _DATA in
> libdir (if only because there is no automake primary for the file
> type).  I'm not sure I know of a good example of an exec file that would
> belong outside of the exec dirs; after all, the other directories are
> supposed to be either shareable between different operating systems, or
> possibly non-executable or so.
>
I haven't tought about this yet.  But IMHO it's no big deal if the usages
in our examples are "bogus"; in fact, the bogusness helps to show how
powerful and potentially dangerous the idiom is.

Anyway, you're obviously free to amend to example to make them less bogus,
if you still think this would be useful.  I have no strong opinion on the
matter.

Regards,
   Stefano



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