Re: Extending automake with a new language

Simon Richter <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Sep 2025 17:53:39 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 9/5/25 4:49 PM, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou wrote:

> This breaks `make distcheck`, as it attempts to install to a directory
> under /usr, which a normal user does not have write access to

I just tested it with a C project, and distcheck sets --prefix to a 
subdirectory "_inst" of the source directory, and installs twice, once 
with an empty DESTDIR, and once with DESTDIR set to to "/tmp/am-dc-$$/".

    Simon