Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/02/14/02:16:28
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > Rem install-sh is required by the configure script but clashes with the
> > Rem various Makefile install-foo targets, so we MUST have it before the
> > Rem script runs and rename it afterwards
> These should really be fixed in the makefile (those rules should be .PHONY)
Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. I got tired of having
"make install" fail on me in some directories of some packages (and
from struggling with frequent incompatible changes in Automake), so I
copied that snippet to all the packages I ported. It doesn't hurt,
because it is all done behind the scenes.
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