Re: [Fwd: Can nobase_pkgdata_DATA take directories? Does not seam so.]

[Sander Niemeijer]

Hi Hans,

Automake does not support wildcard specification of files (e.g. whole 
directories). This is to make sure that:
- a 'make dist' only includes those files from your subdirectories that 
really should go in a distribution
- a 'make distcheck' is able to check whether any generated files in 
your subdirectories are properly cleaned by a 'make distclean'
- a 'make uninstall' does not remove any files a user may have put in 
one of your subdirectories

And probably even more reasons...

For a project I am working on we were faced with a similar problem. I 
ended up writing my own script that creates a 'makefile include' 
containing rules for all my 'wildcard files' (in our case generated 
documentation files). If you want to see how we did this, just have a 
look at our open-source BEAT package (downloadable from 
http://www.science-and-technology.nl/beat/).

Regards,
Sander

On woensdag, maa 3, 2004, at 15:24 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Deragon wrote:

> Mmm...  Posted this message two days ago but have yet to receive any 
> answer.  I believe my question is pretty basic, so anybody care to 
> give me an answer? Surely someone with years of experience can answer 
> this newbie's question?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hans Deragon
> --
> Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
> Deragon Informatique inc.     Open source:
> http://www.deragon.biz        http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net
> mailto://address@hidden     (Automatically poweroff home servers)
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Greetings.
>
> nobase_pkgdata_DATA = \
>   engine \
>   smarty/lib \
>   smarty/plugins \
>   smarty/themes/examples
>
> Above, all of the entries in nobase_pkgdata_DATA are directories.  
> However, when
> I am performing "make install", I get the error (Same error for the 
> other
> directories):
>
> cp: omitting directory `./smarty/themes/examples'
>
> This is because install.sh calls the cp command without the -r 
> parameter.
>
> Is it possible to define directories in nobase_pkgdata_DATA?  I want 
> to avoid to
> list the files because they change allot during development and can 
> become numerous.
>
> In the Automake documentation, all the examples use files, but nowhere 
> have I
> found some warning that directories do not work.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Hans Deragon
> --
> Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
> Deragon Informatique inc.     Open source:
> http://www.deragon.biz        http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net
> mailto://address@hidden     (Automatically poweroff home servers)