I also found this to be strange, although I figured the original authors
had a good reason for this since they explicitly added it to noinst. For
myself, I created a commit on my local fork to install connmanctl by
default. Here is the patch:

>From 2d3efaeef5d43e945915f7281fddfcff7b0c78a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Hiszpanski <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:53:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Install connmanctl into bin

---
 Makefile.am | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 09a0d6b..8fbe649 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ script_LTLIBRARIES =
 include Makefile.plugins

 if CLIENT
-noinst_PROGRAMS += client/connmanctl
+bin_PROGRAMS = client/connmanctl

 noinst_MANUAL_PAGES = doc/connmanctl.1

Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 09:52:18 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: installation of connmanctl
> Message-ID: <20150208085218.GB13532@venom>
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>
> Hello people,
>
> I'm trying to add connman to Guix and I met one thing I don't understand.
>
> In Makefile.am you have
>
> 239  if CLIENT
> 240  noinst_PROGRAMS += client/connmanctl
> 241
> 242  noinst_MANUAL_PAGES = doc/connmanctl.1
>
> When I have a look on various distributions, they simply copies these
> files manually so my question is - what is the purpose of this? Why
> you prevent connmanctl from being installed?
>
> Thanks in advance for answer.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tomas Cech
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