Hi Benoit, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:01:04PM -0700, tsuna wrote: > I use the GWT compiler and it produces dynamically generated file > names (they contain MD5 sums and they depend on what code is getting > compiled, so they change often). I get it to put all its output files > in a given directory so I know where they are. During `make install' > I need to install these files somewhere under $pkgdatadir. I couldn't > find a way to tell Automake to install these files, since I can't > formulate their names in Automake.am, am I missing something? I ended > up writing a install-data-local rule which is pretty much a > copy-pasted-edited version of an install rule otherwise generated by > Automake, except that instead of using a make variable to get the list > of files to install, I use `find -L outputdir \! -type d`. Is there a > better way?
Probably not. If you don't need to flatten directory structure, and the number of files is not too large, you can use something like $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) cd outputdir && $(INSTALL_DATA) * $(DESTDIR)$(foodir) as recent Autoconfs will take care to find an install program that can install multiple files at once. If you want to be super-GCS-compliant, you can prepend your commands with @$(NORMAL_INSTALL) Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
