* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:02:32PM CEST: > OK, here's the long-awaited proposal for a fixed "make install" for CVS > HEAD. I won't commit it until I've tested it on several architectures, > but I'll post it for you to read and complain if necessary.
> Notes: > - I'm a bit unsure whether cleaning pkgdatadir before install is even > allowed: the user could have pre-created a directory structure with > permissions according to her needs. Should I omit that rm -rf? I looked a bit into standards, and I believe we're ok if we change that to -rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/* so that we keep the permissions of the toplevel directory if it was already present before. > What do you think? No comments at all, so I have applied the patch to HEAD with above small change. Cheers, Ralf > * Makefile.am: Install libltdl data files in correct order. > Use pre-defined programs for installation; use NORMAL_INSTALL > and NORMAL_UNINSTALL. Really fix ownership and timestamp > problems. Fix typo in uninstallation of aclocal files. > Reported by Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and > Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
