On 01/26/2017 03:22 PM, Julie Marchant wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a little confused about how to set up Autoconf to install data files > for the program to use later, and I wondered if someone can clear up my > confusion. > > For reference, the pertinent program is Project: Starfighter: > > http://starfighter.nongnu.org > > Starfighter has a few different directories with required data files: > "data", "gfx", "music", and "sound". All files in these directories need > to be installed to a location that gets defined as DATADIR. From what I > understand so far, the directory I want to use is the one stored in the > pkgdatadir variable, and I include files to install there by assigning > them in a Makefile.am to pkgdata_DATA. But listing the files out from a > Makefile.am in the same directory doesn't copy the directory structure, > and if I indicate a directory from the top-level Makefile.am, "make > install" just ignores (or rather, "omits") it and then spits out an > error with no accompanying information. Makefile.am is read by automake, so your question is more likely to be answered in the automake manual than the autoconf manual. > > What am I missing here? How can I install these data files not into the > top-level pkgdatadir, but in the respective appropriate sub-directories > of pkgdatadir (e.g. "$(pkgdatadir)/data" and "$(pkgdatadir)/music")? I > can't find any documentation on how to do this anywhere. Automake lets you define new targets that are subdirectories. In fact, a quick search for $(pkgdatadir) found an example that might be pertinent to your use case: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Alternative But I'm not as good at automake as I am at autoconf, so I'm cc'ing that list in, in case someone else has more ideas. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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