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automake/455: VPATH build chokes on xxx_DATA specs with wildcards
- From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu dot mpg dot de>
- To: automake-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 23 Mar 2005 08:57:25 -0000
- Subject: automake/455: VPATH build chokes on xxx_DATA specs with wildcards
- Reply-to: Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu dot mpg dot de>
>Number: 455
>Category: automake
>Synopsis: VPATH build chokes on xxx_DATA specs with wildcards
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: adl
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 23 09:01:02 UTC 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
>Release: unknown-1.9
>Organization:
>Environment:
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>Description:
I once again stumbled on a package with a xxx_DATA spec containin wildcards ("htmldoc_DATA = $(HTML_DIR)/*" in fontconfig-2.3.1). This works fine if srcdir=., but "make install" badly fails for a VPATH build.
I am fully aware that this might be rather difficult to fix.
There should, however, at least be a strong warning in the documentation that in such cases the spec for htmldoc_DATA
should be $(srcdir)$(HTML_DIR)/* if all these files are distributed, or ./$(HTML_DIR)/* if they are all generated, or both if some are distributed and some are generated.
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