Re: stripping directory component from installation file pathname

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/24/2014 10:01 AM, Marco Maggi wrote:
> Ciao,
>
>    I am moving  a package that compiles many  source files to
> many binary  files, from "one Makefile.am  per subdirectory"
> to a  single top level  Makefile.am.  Most of the  thing has
> gone fine (excluding the tedium of rechecking all the search
> paths).
>
>    This  transition has  introduced  a  problem, though;  the
> package takes source files:
>
>      $(srcdir)/lib/stuff/alpha.sls
>      $(srcdir)/lib/stuff/beta.sls
>
> and compiles them to:
>
>      $(builddir)/lib/stuff/alpha.fasl
>      $(builddir)/lib/stuff/beta.fasl
>
> everything  was  fine  before  with  a  Makefile.am  in  the
> $(srcdir)/lib directory:  the files were listed  without the
> "lib" component.  Now I list the files as:
>
>      nobase_nodist_bundledlibs_DATA = \
>         lib/stuff/alpha.fasl \
>         lib/stuff/beta.fasl
>
> and I  see no way  strip only  the "lib" component  from the
> installation  destination.   The  package  distributes  many
> files, in many subdirectories: I am  not eager to put in the
> Makefile.am a set of variables for every subdirectory.
>
>    Has someone found a workaround?

Do I understand correctly, your issue is installation dirs?

In that case you can try to use a separate installation-dir variable. 
something along the lines of:

mystuffdir =$(datadir)/stuff

datadir_stuff_DATA = lib/stuff/alpha.fasl

Ralf