Re: [patch] automake 1.8 support for gas

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >  As promised, now that automake has been fixed, I'm sending a fix for gas
> > for a proper installation of info pages.  Changes are essentially a
> > reversion of a fix from Nov 12th, with the following additional changes:
> >
> > 1. "install-data-local" is used for installing the info pages -- using
> > "install" for this purpose prevents the man page from being installed.
> 
> But you're not changing the target depended on?  If there's a
> problem, surely you need to change what's *depended on*,
> effectively adding the target that causes manpages to be
> installed, not the one that *depends*?
> 
> I'm probably confused, please enlighten me.  (I'm the one guilty
> of the install-implying-install-info fix.)

Take a look at the NEWS file for Automake 1.8.  The _presence_ of a
rule for install (even with no actions) suppresses the default rule for
install.  Thus install-man is not automatically invoked by automake.

This patch fixes the problem by no longer overriding install.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer