Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 09/17] [ng] check: unconditionally distribute test-driver

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 05/22/2012 11:41 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Le 22 mai 2012 à 23:15, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Akim.
>>
>> On 05/22/2012 11:11 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 22 mai 2012 à 22:48, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
>>>
>>>> This new behaviour is suboptimal, but will allow us to move yet more
>>>> logic and processing from the automake scripts into the generated
>>>> Makefiles.
>>>
>>> To tell the truth, I would be happy if Automake-ng could tidy
>>> build-aux more than it is today.  I personally like m4/ to be
>>> actually build-aux/m4/, which AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR allows me
>>> to do, but I also would like to move all these auxiliary executables
>>> to build-aux/bin/.
>>>
>> You can use the autoconf macro AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR for that, no?  Mainline
>> Automake supports that already ...  Or am I missing something?
> 
> But then I expect to see non executables files in build-aux/bin/.
> For instance
> 
>>    By default, Automake requires the file `texinfo.tex' to appear in
>> the same directory as the `Makefile.am' file that lists the `.texi'
>> files.  If you used `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR' in `configure.ac' (*note
>> Finding `configure' Input: (autoconf)Input.), then `texinfo.tex' is
>> looked for there.  In both cases, `automake' then supplies
>> `texinfo.tex' if `--add-missing' is given, and takes care of its
>> distribution.  However, if you set the `TEXINFO_TEX' variable (see
>> below), it overrides the location of the file and turns off its
>> installation into the source as well as its distribution.
> 
> But maybe it's the only one,
>
Yes, currently it is.

> and you are right, I can live with that.  I'll try, thanks!
> 
Good!  And if you can, let us know how this works out.

Regards,
  Stefano