Re: creating a report that displays what has been installed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Vincent,

* Vincent Torri wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:36PM CET:
> I'm trying to improve the autotools of he openjpeg project. The lead dev
> wants me to display in the terminal what has been installed. I tried to
> argue that looking at what is already in the terminal is sufficient, he
> still prefers to see it at the end of the process.
> 
> One possible way would be to add in a file some output strings (using a
> hook) each time something is installed, and in the top-level Makefile.am,
> displaying that report file.
> 
> Is there a smarter way to do this ?

Hmm.  Even what you suggest isn't easy to do, at least not portably.

Here's a fairly expensive way to list those files; it depends on DESTDIR
support, and assumes you do not have a file or directory ./DEST:

  make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/DEST
  echo "Installed files:"
  (cd DEST && find .)
  rm -rf DEST

Alternatively, you can override prefix=... at install time, but libtool
might complain a bit.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf