Re: scp and install_files

Scott Henry Harrison wrote:

> > You need to put the "scp://" on the first part.  When not using $DESTDIR
> > that should be in $PREFIX.  The directory argument of install_files() is
> > the directory below the prefix, you can't specify the copy method there.
> > 
> > PREFIX = scp://[email protected]
> > all:
> >    @install_files("/tmp","Makefile.in",'0644')
> 
> Note that when it is something like:
> 
> PREFIX = /
> all:
>    @install_files("/tmp","Makefile.in",'0644')
> 
> and I do
> 
> make -f test.aap PREFIX=scp://[email protected]

Ehm, you apparently typed this, with a few mistakes...

> it installs in (locally)
> 
> /scp:/sharrison\@somewhere.cc
> 
> Why isn't the command-line PREFIX overriding the *.aap's
> PREFIX?

The command-line values of variables are used to initialize the
variables before executing the recipe.  Assignments in a recipe may then
change the values again.  Aap != make :-)

I always found it very confusing that make would sometimes skip an
assignment.  "The assignment is there, why doesn't it work?  Oh, there
is an enviroment variable with the same name...".

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