Hello,
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:09:13PM +, Alan Larkin wrote:
> Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > # Not sure if this is needed for automake; but it's needed by GNU make
> > # (without it it will not try the .cpp.i rule).
> > .SUFFIXES: .i
this is what make understands, Automake writes it to Makefil
I have added some install options to configure, for example ...
--with-man-pages
--with-readme
and some others
I then tried to get automake to add the relevant instructions via
automake.am INSTALL_DIRS, like so ...
# man pages
if test -n "${with_man_pages}"; then \
INSTALL_DIRS += $
Hello atoz,
* atoz wrote on Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:03:54PM CET:
> I have added some install options to configure, for example ...
>
> --with-man-pages
> --with-readme
>
> and some others
If you go by the GNU Coding Standards, you should use --enable for
these, as they don't specify interaction
Hi Ed,
* Ed Hartnett wrote on Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:49:00PM CET:
>
> I am using automake 1.10, and having a problem on AIX systems, with
> AIX make.
[...]
> With GNU make this works well everywhere, but using the AIX make it
> tries to build the documents anyway, and this causes an error:
Firs
thank you for your reply
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
If you go by the GNU Coding Standards, you should use --enable for
these, as they don't specify interaction with external packages.
fair enough, but it doesn't change the nature of my problem.
Instead of this:
# man pages
if test -n "${with_
* atoz wrote on Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:54:47PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> ># Makefile.am snippet:
> >if MAN_PAGES
> >INSTALL_DIRS += $(foomandir)
> >endif
> >if FOO_DOCS
> >INSTALL_DIRS += $(foodocdir)
> >fi
>
> this doesn't make a difference though because automake copies this
> v
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
OK, but you insist on the targets `man-pages' and `readme', you can
just
put the whole block inside an if:
if MAN_PAGES
man-pages:
# do your stuff
else
man-pages:
# do nothing
fi
my vars are called WANT_MAN_PAGES, WANT_README etc, but other than
tha
