Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > > release: > > $(MAKE) CFLAGS=-O2 prefix=/usr sysconfdir=/etc localstatedir=/var > > You are miss interpreting automake's tasks. Packaging is not of > automake's business.
The above technique really has nothing to do with automake and just deals with make by itself. It is obviously just a convenience target. But convenience targets are, well, convenient. I will guess that what you are probably really objecting to, or at least as well, is using the makefile to install things directly into the system's live running directories of /usr and /etc. I see that and it makes me cringe. Much better to use a package manager such as dpkg or rpm for such tasks. I would rather see that trigger a debuild or an rpmbuild and create a real package instead. > Your approach isn't much more but a short-cut to your personal and local > practice and setup. It is wrong and therefore inapplicable almost > anywhere else. I agree it is inapplicable elsewhere. But I disagree it is wrong. If you are the developer and want a short-cut target in your makefile and it does not damage anything else then I believe that would be okay. It adds convenience and removes nothing. There are actually a lot of projects that add local project specific targets to their makefile. Few people outside the project know about it because the public interface of 'tar xzf ...; ./configure; make; make install' all work as expected and they never see the typing aides internal to the development of the project. Bob
