Hello Vincent, * Vincent Torri wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:36PM CET: > I'm trying to improve the autotools of he openjpeg project. The lead dev > wants me to display in the terminal what has been installed. I tried to > argue that looking at what is already in the terminal is sufficient, he > still prefers to see it at the end of the process. > > One possible way would be to add in a file some output strings (using a > hook) each time something is installed, and in the top-level Makefile.am, > displaying that report file. > > Is there a smarter way to do this ?
Hmm. Even what you suggest isn't easy to do, at least not portably. Here's a fairly expensive way to list those files; it depends on DESTDIR support, and assumes you do not have a file or directory ./DEST: make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/DEST echo "Installed files:" (cd DEST && find .) rm -rf DEST Alternatively, you can override prefix=... at install time, but libtool might complain a bit. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
