[adding bug-automake] Hi infirit, On 02/02/14 12:25, infirit wrote:
Hi, So for a project we wanted to make the tarball different from from the package name. So we updated AC_INIT and added the tarname and indeed now the tarball generated changes. However, we noticed that now the $PACKAGE variable is also changed to what we set as tarname. Which then caused files being installed in the wrong place as now $(pkgdatadir) changed as well.
The first argument in AC_INIT is used to set variable $PACKAGE_NAME. The variable $PACKAGE is set by Automake within AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE somehow inferred from your AC_INIT call, so this looks like a bug (or feature) in Automake (cc:d here). I think you can solve your problem by adding no-define to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and define variables PACKAGE and version yourself. Hopefully the gurus on the list have some better idea.
Cheers, Peter
As an example, we changed AC_INIT([this_is_package], [0.0.1], [http://someurl/]) to AC_INIT([this_is_package], [0.0.1], [http://someurl/], [this_is_package_tarname]) I tested this with a small configure.ac and empty Makefile.am. The example is below. -- AC_INIT([this_is_package], [0.0.1],[http://someurl/],[this_is_package_tarname]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 foreign dist-xz no-dist-gzip]) AC_OUTPUT AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) echo ${PACKAGE} echo ${PACKAGE_TARNAME} -- I put in some echo's at the end of the configure.ac and indeed the variables $PACKAGE and $PACKAGE_TARNAME *both* change when adding the tarname to AC_INIT. Is this a bug in autoconf or are we missing something? I am not subscribed so please cc me on replies. Thx ~infirit _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
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