> Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> writes: > > What's the problem with bin_SCRIPTS? > > Hmm, I didn't know about it, but ... reading the documentation, > "bin_SCRIPTS" doesn't actually seem to do much of anything -- you > still have to add your own rules to handle all the actual work, need > to fiddle with EXTRA_DIST and CLEANFILES, etc. Indeed, doing what I > did (putting the script in bin_PROGRAMS and adding a rule to build it) > actually seems _easier_, as automake will do more automatically, and > there's less to keep track of for the programmer....
I recommend you actually try it and see for yourself. There are reasons for using it for scripts instead of using _PROGRAMS. H
