Le 27/10/2016 à 23:06, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Raphaël Halimi <raphael.hal...@gmail.com> writes: > >> According to section 2.2.6 of GNU automake documentation: > >> "The build tree usually has the same subdirectory layout as the source >> tree; its subdirectories are created automatically by the build system." > >> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be true for the SCRIPTS primary (I >> assume it's true and works as expected for compiled binaries and >> libraries, I can't know, I'm new to autotools and I'm a sysadmin, I >> develop only scripts, nothing compiled). > > I've run into this problem before, and just had Autoconf create the > directory by adding: > > AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([server], [test -d server || mkdir server]) > > (in my case, the name of the directory containing the scripts was server). > It's kind of a hack, but it works.
Thanks, this trick worked. On a more general note, I don't understand why the SCRIPTS primary is so much "inferior" to the PROGRAMS one; the latter automatically takes care of files to be distributed or cleaned, and of subdirectories creation, whereas the former needs those files to be explicitly included in EXTRA_DIST and CLEANFILES, and the subdirectories to be manually created. How comes ? Is there a technical limitation that makes those things impossible (or too hard) to guess for scripts ? Regards, -- Raphaël Halimi
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