Re: How to install scripts in a different place from binaries?

[Reuben Thomas]

On 7 March 2011 21:52, Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday, March 07, 2011 16:35:28 Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> On 7 March 2011 20:46, Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > try naming it "foo_SCRIPTS" instead ?  then you'll have a --foodir=
>> > configure option iirc.
>>
>> So there's no standard way to install non-architecturally-dependent
>> executables?
>
> what i described is standard.  automake gets the directory name from the first
> part (what comes before the "_") and figures out how to treat the files via
> the second part (the primary -- what comes after the "_").  the automake
> manual on the automake homepage describes all of this.

Thanks for the workaround. What I'm trying to find is a standard
variable that designates "directory in which to install
architecture-independent executables." Your method seems to require me
to define a new variable, so, fine, I can do that, and define it as
${prefix}/bin, but that's just another thing to maintain. I was trying
to find out if this functionality was built in already; I guess you're
saying it's not? Does this count as an omission, given that many
packages will want to install architecture-independent executables?

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