I know this has been discussed before, and I don't remember seeing a good solution. Perhaps this has changed with automake-1.7.7...
I have a situation where I am using automake conditionals to control the installation directory of _PROGRAMS. In certain configurations I want them to be bin_PROGRAMS, and in others I want them to be bootbin_PROGRAMS. Sometimes automake-1.7.7 does not like this, and complains: utils/Makefile.am:30: automake does not support bin_PROGRAMS being defined conditionally utils/Makefile.am:42: automake does not support bootbin_PROGRAMS being defined conditionally I would rather not hack around this by always installing in bin_PROGRAMS and using the automake conditionals to override using: if FOO bindir=$(bootbindir) endif (assuming that would work...)_ What other solutions are there? One other strange thing - there are some directories where this same situation does not cause a complaint from automake, and so far I haven't been able to see the difference inhow I have specified things. H
