Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Oct-2009, Judd Storrs wrote:

| Some files were installed by the unmodified 9759:97de6c916498 but were
| not installed with the automake patch:
| 
| octave/include/octave-3.3.50+/octave/ArrayN.h

OK, I added ArrayN.h back in to the MATRIX_INC list in
liboctave/Makefile.am.

| octave/share/octave/3.3.50+/m/optimization/PKG_ADD.t

That is a temporary file created during the build and should not be
installed.

| The patched version installed these files that were not installed by
| the unmodified version:
| 
| octave/share/info/liboctave.info
| octave/share/info/OctaveFAQ.info

I don't really want these to be installed, but I couldn't figure out a
way to tell autoconf that the pdf, ps, dvi, and info versions of these
files should all be built and distributed, but not installed.  I don't
know whether that is just pilot error or a bug/misfeature in
automake.  It would be great if someone could figure out how to get
this to work.  Otherwise, I guess we'll just install these files.
Though maybe the formatted versions of the liboctave document
shouldn't be built at all...

| As expected there were some differences in installed libraries:
| 
| patched:
| 
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/libcruft-3.3.50+.so
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/libcruft.la
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/liboctave-3.3.50+.so
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/liboctave.la
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/liboctinterp-3.3.50+.so
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/liboctinterp.la
| 
| unmodified:
| 
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/libcruft.so.3.3.50+
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/liboctave.so.3.3.50+
| octave/lib/octave-3.3.50+/liboctinterp.so.3.3.50+

Yeah, libtool uses a different naming scheme.  I don't think it
matters much.

jwe