[Xastir-dev] patch for pkglibdir is not a legitimate directory for SCRIPTS error

Carl Makin carl at stagecraft.cx
Sat Feb 4 19:44:29 EST 2012


Hi Tom,

On 05/02/2012, at 11:08 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

> I have applied this patch in CVS.

Thanks!

> I added "dist_" to "scripts_DATA" because the original intent (as evidenced
> by the EXTRA_DIST you removed in the patch, was that the scripts would be
> included in .tar.gz files generated from "make dist".  scripts_DATA will
> cause the indicated scripts to be installed, but won't include them in the
> distribution tarball.  Adding a "dist_" prefix makes that happen.

Ahhh, now I understand, thanks for clarifying that.  Although I've been building software via configure for years this was the first time I'd really dived into automake and tried to understand how it all hung together.


Carl.
(vk1kcm)





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