Alexander Pohoyda writes:
> Hi list,
>
> I am unable to find a template to create a rule to install files from
> a directory which does not have a makefile itself.
> I need to process some files matching a mask (e.g. somedir/*.xpm)
> without having to list them all in a makefile.
>
> There is an InstallMultiple(list,dest) macro, but it takes a file list
> as an argument, so that's exactly what I want to avoid.
>
> I believe that this is quite a general task, so I dare to propose a
> new template. Please see the attached patch. I would appreciate any
> ideas about this patch or maybe there are good reasons not to have
> such a template? Better ways to do this?
>
I've looked all over the X sources and I was not able to find a case
where we don't supply a list. However have you tried to use
somedir/*.xpm in InstallMultiple()? InstallMultiple()
does a
for i in $LIST; do...
if $LIST gets replaced by somedir/*.xpm it should do what you have in
mind.
Egbert.
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