On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:18, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote: > 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.... >
Placing shell script under *_PROGRAMS variable may break 'install-strip' target. Just because strip(1) (or 'install -s', if more preciously) don't know how to strip them. -- Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nose...@gmail.com>
