Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes:
> Is there a recommended way for dealing with binaries that are simple
> shell scripts in automake? I currently use something like the
> following:
> bin_PROGRAMS = myprog
> myprog_SOURCES = myprog.sh
> myprog: myprog.sh
> %: %.sh
> $(shbin_verbose)cp $< $@; chmod +x $@
> shbin_verbose = $(shbin_verbose_$(V))
> shbin_verbose_ = $(shbin_verbose_$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY))
> shbin_verbose_0 = @echo " SHBIN " $@;
Are you sometimes doing something more complex than copying them? Since
otherwise that seems rather pointless, compared to just:
bin_PROGRAMS = myprog
and having the script just be named that and already be executable, which
is what I do with any exectuable shell scripts.
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Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
