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From: | John Calcote |
Subject: | Re: simple 'install of png file' question |
Date: | Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:56:19 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Thunderbird/3.0b3 |
Hi David, On 8/11/2009 7:28 AM, David Liebman wrote:
Hello, This is a newbie question. I have a simple project that I'm using automake and autoconf on. It involves a simple c program, but uses a png image. The png image is in a directory called 'pics' and I want it copied to a certain directory on the system when the user calls the 'install' target. I suspect the proper thing to do is to make a Makefile in the 'pics' directory and have that makefile install the png. How do I go about doing that? Does anyone have a link to a good example of how this is done? If I am creating a Makefile in the pics directory I would like the Makefile to be auto-generated.
You may create a new Makefile.am file in the pics directory if you wish, or you don't have to. Here's how to do this if you don't create a new Makefile.am. Add this code to the parent directory's Makefile.am:
picdir = $(datadir)/pics # assuming you want png's installed in /usr/local/share/pics
pic_DATA = mypicture.pngThat's it! Regarding the location where you want to install - try to use standard places if you can, but if you can't then try to build on standard places defined in the automake provided environment variables.
Regards, John
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