Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

-- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e/Sweden #! /bin/sh # rminstalldirs -- remove empty directory hierarchy # Author: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Created: 2000-05-15 # EX

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

m the fact that it doesn't remove the directories? The world would surely be a better place if every package supported a proper uninstall target. Perhaps even a make manifest that writes the name of each installed file to stdout -- there's your package management. -- Peter

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

e an empty /opt/bin which I don't need. That is arguably worse than doing nothing at all and admitting that. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e/Sweden

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

mkinstalldirs. These scripts are useful in their own right, even for people who don't know or need the GNU missing script. Once again: one tool for one job. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

e way to go. Then those that have mkdir -p can use it in their makefiles for speed, and those who feel confident enough about the rmdir -p (perhaps not for uninstall, but for whatever they want) have it available as well. Any interest? -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115

Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

François Pinard writes: Just a comment, here. We used `mkdir -p' all along in this thread, ... although it started with rmdir -p ... but I guess it might be better to think `install -d' rather than `mkdir -p'. Is there a difference? -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10

Re: Support for making perl scripts...

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Re: -c -o

. If I'm redefining the .c = .o pattern rule for my purposes (e.g., dependency generation) then I need to know whether the compiler supports -c -o, otherwise I have to do something like cc mv. Please keep it. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: install-info

5 RPM from RedHat 6.? rebuild for this RH 5.2 based system, and install-info ends up in /sbin. I don't think this can be a rare problem. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e/Sweden

[Patch] remove temp file in sanity check

2001-04-27 Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] * m4/sanity.m4: Remove the temp file before possible error exits. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter Index: m4/sanity.m4 === RCS

Re: libtool 1.4: make uninstall broken?

install-info into sbin. Ordinary users can make perfectly good use of it. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Re: Auto-tools Win32 Borland C++ Builder

Martin Hollmichel writes: * changing a autotool file, then waiting for configure to write 1200 makefiles. Make config.status put all the configuration information into a single makefile and have all the other makefiles include that one. It's saved me many boring waits. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: install script needs other permissions

writable (by anyone) is a rather obscure requirement, so I doubt you will get a better interface than this. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Re: LONG: Limitations of Make (Portable Shell Programming chapterof Autoconf)

: foo3.c cc -c `test -f foo3.c || echo ../src/`foo3.c -o foo3.o Deciding to quote `$(HEADERS)' in some way, like we did for `foo.c' a few `Makefile's ago, do not help: does -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean

that macro at the end of distclean-local or whatever it's called, This assumes that you use autoconf with 'make' and certain things about how makefiles operate. Don't go there. Just list the files and let the makefile writer worry about how to use that. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean

everything. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean

standards to make any sense of it. Subdir distclean works just fine; please leave it. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean

because a list of files might not always be the right thing to do. Why not? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

that's a good idea. It goes completely contrary to the goals of the autotools. In fact, I don't even believe the premise that the Autotools are particularly hard to maintain to the point that it hinders progress. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

make anything easier. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with nearly-empty configure.ac's

config.guess and config.sub. They are supposed to be found in the same directory as install-sh. configure checks for only install-sh, probably out of laziness. This could be improved. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]