Re: How to install additional files in "make install"

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:05 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:46:12AM CEST:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 19:32 -0700, Poe wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have a pre-built shared library (.so) that I want to distribute, and 
> > > when
> > > "make install" is executed I need it to be installed in the libdir along
> > > with libraries that are built during the make process.
> 
> > dist_lib_DATA = libxxx.so
> 
> That won't get the right (execute) permissions of libxxx.so,

Adding an install-data-hook is another one.

>  and
> automake complains
> | Makefile.am:1: `libdir' is not a legitimate directory for `DATA'

Ohh yeah - I forgot about this ole' bug in automake 
(IMO, automake is plain wrong on not letting other files go into
$libdir).

> A workaround is to
>   mylibdir = $(libdir)
>   dist_mylib_SCRIPTS = libxxx.so

Ralf