Re: Building prog first

[Russell Shaw]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Russell,
>
> * Russell Shaw wrote on Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 07:06:00AM CET:
> > I want the "unimain" program built first, then use it to generate
> > unidata.tab.c, which is then compiled and linked into librunicode.la
> >
> >   bin_PROGRAMS = unimain
> >   unimain_SOURCES = unimain.c
>
> >   unidata.tab.c: /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
> >       ./unimain $< > $@
>
> Then you need a dependency from unidata.tab.c on unimain:
>
> unidata.tab.c: unimain$(EXEEXT) /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
>         ./unimain$(EXEEXT) $< > $@

Ok, that works thanks:)

However, "make install" installs unimain into /usr/local/bin

How do i stop this program from being installed?

I did:

  install-exec-hook:
      rm $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/unimain$(EXEEXT)


This deletes it out of /usr/local/bin after installing it which
seems kind of kludgy.

> Furthermore, please don't hard-code absolute paths like
>   /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
>
> in your makefiles.  Make them configurable by configure.  Maybe your
> users don't have root rights on their system but have the file installed
> below their home somewhere?