Re: installing info files

[Peter Johansson]

Hi Patrick,


On 5/21/2017 5:16 PM, Patrick Alken wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I have a .info file (not generated by texinfo) and would like it to be
> installed under 'make install'. I tried adding it like this:
>
> info_DATA = file.info
>
> but this gives the following error:
>
> doc/Makefile.am:7: error: 'infodir' is not a legitimate directory for 'DATA'
>
> My current solution, which works is this:
>
> ------------------
> EXTRA_DIST = file.info
>
> install-data-local: file.info
>      ${INSTALL} file.info ${infodir}
> ------------------

I don't know how to do this "automakially", but I would modify the rule 
above to

install-data-local: file.info
    ${INSTALL_DATA} file.info $(DESTDIR)${infodir}

where I 1) use INSTALL_DATA which default sets permission -m 644 and 2) 
use DESTDIR variable to allow for staged installation 
(https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/DESTDIR.html#DESTDIR)

I think 'make distcheck' at least is checking that 2) works, so I 
suspect 'distcheck fails' with your current rule.

Cheers,
Peter