On 11 January 2014 08:37, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > On 11 January 2014 03:49, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Sure, I was wondering more about the user interface than the > implementation. >
In the end I added a variable PERL_EXEEXT, which is set to .pl if EXEEXT is set. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
