Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> writes: > Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes:
>> [1] I'm asking because Automake 1.11 will reliably not install files if >> their respective installation directory is empty. This is not yet >> functional in Automake 1.10.2. The test for emptiness in 1.11 will not >> consider $(DESTDIR) of course, only $(bindir) etc. > > I must have misunderstood this, since it sounds like it would potentially > break any system where each binary package is installed into a separate > tree. For example, stow packages are routinely installed with: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > make > make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/package-version > > DESTDIR cannot easily be used here because the stow layout should have > simple bin, etc, lib, etc. directories directly under that directory, not > with an extra /usr/local in the way. Oh, you mean if the value of the *variable* is empty (following the thread), not the directory itself. D'oh, sorry, that should have been obvious to me from context. Never mind. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
