[sane-devel] sane-frontend-1.0.7 installs binaries silently

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:58:36 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:05:41PM -0500, wls@astro.umd.edu wrote:
> This is a nit but an annoying one for me.  sane-frontend-1.0.7 hides the
> installs of its binaries.  On my solaris installs I like to document everything
> installed so that I can more easily manage things on update or removal.
> 
> I think this would also be a problem for package builders that would try to
> make a complete list of files for their packages.

Good spot. Do you depend on the output of set -x? Otherwise I would
use the following approach which is used in the other Makefiles:

Index: src/Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/external/sane/sane-frontends/src/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 Makefile.in
--- Makefile.in	2002/01/12 00:45:16	1.11
+++ Makefile.in	2002/03/13 17:57:06
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 	fi
 	$(MKDIR) $(bindir) $(datadir)
 	@for program in $(BINPROGS); do \
+	  echo installing $${program} in $(bindir)... ; \
 	  $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $${program} \
 	    $(bindir)/$${program}; \
 	done




Bye,
  Henning