Re: Do not create conditional installation directories

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:31:29PM CET:
> 
> I assume these two patches implement what you, Akim, desire, while they
> do not touch the functionality that you, Ralf, would like not to be
> destroyed.  Do you both agree?

I have pushed these two patches to master now.  (I will merge master
into next soonish.)

Of course your feedback is still very much welcome!

Cheers,
Ralf

>     Ensure that empty directory variables work with empty content variables.
>     
>     This test ensures that, if both $(wheredir) and $(where_HOW) are
>     the empty string, then the `install' and `uninstall' rules behave
>     sanely, for several directory variables `wheredir' and several
>     primaries `HOW'.
>     
>     * tests/instdir.test: New test.
>     * tests/Makefile.am: Update.


>     Sane (un)install for empty directory variables.
>     
>     This patch fixes all install and uninstall rules to behave
>     sanely when $(wheredir) is the empty string, but $(where_HOW) is
>     nonempty, for all kinds of values of `where' and `HOW'.
>     
>     * lib/am/data.am (install-%DIR%%PRIMARY%, uninstall-%DIR%%PRIMARY%):
>     Do not touch the install tree if the corresponding directory variable
>     $(%NDIR%dir) is empty.
>     * lib/am/java.am (install-%DIR%JAVA, uninstall-%DIR%JAVA): Likewise.
>     * lib/am/libs.am (install-%DIR%LIBRARIES, uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES):
>     Likewise.
>     * lib/am/lisp.am (install-%DIR%LISP, uninstall-%DIR%LISP): Likewise.
>     * lib/am/ltlib.am (install-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES, uninstall-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES):
>     Likewise.
>     * lib/am/mans.am (install-man%SECTION%, uninstall-man%SECTION%):
>     Likewise.
>     * lib/am/progs.am (install-%DIR%PROGRAMS, uninstall-%DIR%PROGRAMS):
>     Likewise.
>     * lib/am/python.am (install-%DIR%PYTHON, uninstall-%DIR%PYTHON):
>     Likewise.
>     * lib/am/scripts.am (install-%DIR%SCRIPTS, uninstall-%DIR%SCRIPTS):
>     Likewise.
>     * lib/am/texinfos.am (install-dvi-am, install-html-am, install-pdf-am)
>     (install-ps-am, uninstall-dvi-am, uninstall-html-am, uninstall-pdf-am)
>     (uninstall-ps-am): Likewise.
>     * tests/instdir2.test, tests/instdir-java.test,
>     tests/instdir-lisp.test, tests/instdir-ltlib.test,
>     tests/instdir-prog.test, tests/instdir-python.test,
>     tests/instdir-texi.test: New tests.
>     * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
>     * NEWS: Update.
>     Suggestion by Akim Demaille.