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Re: Packaging Autotool files from a subdirectory
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Packaging Autotool files from a subdirectory |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:55:59 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi Eric,
* Eric Lemings wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:14:54PM CET:
>
> Over the years, I believe I've seen a few distributions that have
> platform-indepent files (README, ChangeLog, etc.) in the top-level
> directory of the package and relocate the Autotool-related files
> into a ./build/unix subdirectory for example.
Hmm, yes. I've seen that a few times, too.
> Is that possible and, if so, is this documented somewhere? Where
> can I find packages that are distributed this way?
As far as I know, this is not supported, and likely changes in Autoconf
and Automake releases may have made this harder to realize over time
(knowingly or not: I don't know).
You can move a lot of the needed files to subdirectories, though; see
the macros AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, for example.
Cheers,
Ralf