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automake/25: add pre-inst hooks to automake
- To: automake-gnats at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: automake/25: add pre-inst hooks to automake
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 8 Nov 1999 01:13:21 -0000
- Reply-To: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Resent-Cc: automake-prs at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Kevin Dalley <kevind at rahul dot net>, 22952-forwarded at bugs dot debian dot org, Yann Dirson <ydirson at a2points dot com>
- Resent-Reply-To: automake-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
>Number: 25
>Category: automake
>Synopsis: add pre-inst hooks to automake
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: tromey
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 07 17:21:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tom Tromey
>Release: current cvs
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
A Debian user of automake has made the following suggestion for
automake.
The only install hooks that automake provides (eg. install-data-local)
are postinst hooks. Though the GNU coding standards documents a
preinst behaviour, automake does not allow to use this.
There should be something like `pre-install-data-local', and the
install targets should be expanded like:
install-data: pre-install-data-local install-pkgdataDATA install-data-local
(Of course that target won't work due to parallel builds.
The idea is ok, though.)
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