Re: [PATCH] split --disable-extras into multiple options

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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Michael Olbrich
<m.olbrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:23:53AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> I'm not that familiar with the udev setup, but I'd like to caution
>> against surrounding these whole sections in an AM_CONDITIONAL. The
>> preferred thing to do is surround just the parts that result in
>> commands being run. For instance, I can see that you've here put
>> dist_extras_gudev_libgudev_1_0_la_SOURCES under ENABLE_GUDEV. This
>> will eventually break "make dist" if there person doing the
>> distributing isn't building GUdev.
>
> So you are saying, that if the section is disabled, then the files will be
> skipped during "make dist", right?
>
> So how would we handle "udevrules"?
> "udevrulesdir" is always set but not all files in "dist_udevrules_DATA" are
> always installed.
> Would something like this work:
>
> # unconditional stuff:
> dist_udevrules_DATA += \
>        some_file
> ...
> dist_modem_modeswitch_DATA = \
>        extras/modem-modeswitch/61-option-modem-modeswitch.rules \
>        extras/modem-modeswitch/61-mobile-action.rules
>
> if ENABLE_MODEM_MODESWITCH
> udevrules_DATA += dist_modem_modeswitch_DATA
>
> libexec_PROGRAMS += extras/modem-modeswitch/modem-modeswitch
> endif # ENABLE_MODEM_MODESWITCH
> ...

Sorry, it looks like I lied. I actually tested now, and automake will
search within the conditionals when figuring out what to distribute.
We'd had a bug in one of the X packages from this same type of usage,
but I think it was from a different issue.

--
Dan
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