Hi Reuben, On Jan 11, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
> I have a project that installs a C program and a Perl program. I want to > allow the Perl program to be installed with the suffix .pl, on Windows, for > example. > > In the past, I have misused EXEEXT for this, with projects that install > programs in one non-C language only, but here that is not possible, since I > install a C program. > > Is there any generally-used way around this? If not, should I just introduce > a generic-sounding variable like PERL_EXEEXT and use that, and advertise its > use? I would write an install-exec-hook in your Makefile.am that performs any post-install renames according to whatever logic you deem appropriate :) http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
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