[PATCH] INSTALL doesn't belong in docdir

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sat Jan 2 13:02:18 PST 2010


On Sat, Jan  2, 2010 at 15:56:48 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:

> I did some test scenario regarding backward compatibility. It turns out
> setting docdir=pkgdatadir does not help. The value of docdir in the
> module's copy of INSTALL_CMD is set at configuration time. If the module
> was configured with macros @ v1.4, then the INSTALL_CMD will copy from
> share/doc every time the makefile target is invoked.
> 
> INSTALL_CMD = (cp
> -f /home/nadon/xorg/src/share/doc/util-macros/INSTALL ...
> 
Sigh.  Kind of defeats the point of making it a variable.  Can we fix
the macro to do the replacement when $(INSTALL_CMD) is run instead?
This way we look for the file where the current xorg-macros.pc tells us.

Thanks for testing...

Cheers,
Julien


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