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Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh schrieb am 30.03.2009 18:43: |
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>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:48 +0200 |
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>> Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> else |
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>>> for x in AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README; do |
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>>> if [ -e ${x} ]; then |
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>> Is -e really better than -s? |
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>> |
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> |
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> I think -s should be used here. I have seen projects out there which |
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> don't use the mandatory autotools files (INSTALL, NEWS, README, AUTHORS, |
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> ChangeLog, COPYING) at all or use other files than these. So they just |
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> place an empty file there to make automake happy instead of using the |
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> --foreign option. Besides that it makes no sense to install empty |
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> documentation files at all. |
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> |
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portage don't install empty files (they are ignored) so it would be |
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painless. |
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