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Re: Conditional copying
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Simon Richter |
Subject: |
Re: Conditional copying |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:24:55 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.3i |
David,
> I'm trying to configure a program such that it will build properly,
> whether or not the building is done from the top of the source tree,
> or in a separate build directory. If a separate build directory is
> used, it is necessary to copy one directory from $top_srcdir/examples
> to $top_builddir/examples.
Usually I tell automake to pass ${srcdir}/file and don't bother copying.
for example,
tool_LDFLAGS = -Wl,--version-script=${srcdir}/file
> How I can do the conditional copy? I tried this in Makefile.am
> if [ $top_builddir != $top_srcdir ] ; then
> cp -R $top_srcdir/examples $top_builddir/examples
> fi
Makefile.am is not a shell script, but rather a Makefile.
Simon
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