On Friday 04 December 2009 20:19:13 Jiří Paleček wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:06:40 +0100, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Friday 04 December 2009 11:58:13 Jiri Palecek wrote:
> >> the makefiles install all files with executable mode by default. This
> >> patch
> >>  changes it for some of the Makefiles, that install data files, which
> >>  should IMHO not be executable. The change makes INSTALL_MODE decide the
> >>  actual mode when it is expanded inside the install rule (depending on
> >> $@,
> >>  which is the install target name).
> >
> > that's pretty fugly way to go about it.  let's go the more natural route
> > and
> > have the common code default to $(INSTALL_MODE_$@) and if that's unset,
> > use
> > the default $(INSTALL_MODE).
> 
> Sorry, but I don't agree with that. This is a function-like approach which
> is not any less "natural" than what you propose - and it makes no demands
> on anyone who doesn't need it, and gives great power to those who need it.

your solution requires non-obvious delayed evaluation that isnt 
straightforward.  mine is explicit, unambiguous, and already in use by many 
other projects that ltp is related to.

> The main reason I don't like the INSTALL_MODE_$@ thing, is that eg.
> INSTALL_TARGETS can contain wildcards (eg. dir/*.ext), and there cannot be
> any such thing as $(INSTALL_MODE_dir/*.ext). You would have to enumerate
> all data files - or all program files - which would be a chore esp. if any
> of these isn't known in the makefile until "make all" is ran.

so fix install targets to expand the globs at make time and not shell time.  
i.e. something like INSTALL_TARGETS := $(wildcard $(INSTALL_TARGETS))
-mike

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