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Re: installing complete generated directory trees
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: installing complete generated directory trees |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:43:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-11-01) |
Hello Dan,
* Dan McMahill wrote on Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:34:54AM CET:
> I have a program which as part of its build generates a large directory
> structure that is a couple of levels deep and has a couple of thousand
> ascii data files that the program may make use of at run time.
[...]
> I guess I could use tar in an install-local: target but I didn't know if
> there was a supported way.
That sounds like a good idea. If you want to comply with the GNU Coding
Standards to the letter, you should execute one `install' per file
though (but I'd not recomment that in this case).
> For the distfile, I didn't see any good way.
dist-hook:, and use $(distdir) in there.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ralf