Re: Wish: add a target install-list target in generated Makefile

[Gary V. Vaughan]

bear wrote:
> The usual way to install a gnu software is
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> but can you add a install-list target which I can run
> make install-list
> to see what and where to "install"?
> Maybe there already is a solution. If so, can you tell me how to? 

If you are running a reasonable implementation of make (eg GNU Make):

make -n install

will show the commands that would be executed without actually running
them.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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