>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyway I think the big problem is sub-package breakdown. Maybe this
> is solveable. I'm willing to put patches into automake that help with
> `autopackage'.
> The automake-related idea I had was that installable objects would be
> marked by the sub-package they belong to. Something like:
> lib_LIBRARIES = libfoo.a
> devel_header_HEADERS = foo/foo.h
I have been thinking about this too. Installable objects should have a
package prefix. We can also have a global variable called PACKAGES or
something like that, so that automake can generate install targets
install-<packagename>.
This would make multiple packages from a single source very easy to
implement. For example, even though Debian has ways to handle multi-package
sources, it's mostly manual; you do a normal install and then *move* the
files into the required package sub-directories.
Ganesan
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