Hi Reuben,
> On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 11 January 2014 03:49, Gary V. Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Reuben,
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> 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.
No UI required:
install-exec-hook:
test -z "$(EXEEXT)" || { cd $(prefix)/bin; for f in $(bin_SCRIPTS); do
mv -f $$f $$f.pl; done; }
(CAVEAT EMPTOR: from memory; untested, you'll probably need to massage $$f a
bit before handing it to mv like that :)
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
