Re: Automake and directories

Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2/17/06, Piotras <pp-VVDi8QVAvoBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anyone knows how to define directories creation in Makefile.am?
> > I need to create $etc/midgard/conf.d and $share/midgard/schema dirs.
> 
> Do you need to place files in them or just create the directories? The
> default for automake is to create the directories on-demand when it
> needs to place a file there. A simple way to force the creation of
> such directories is to define explanatory README.txt files to be
> placed there.

Yes, that's why I created conf.d directory and moved example file there.
No directory is created. 

> > First case is somehow related to trick which should be done to
> > overwrite ( far from being clever ) sysconfdir.
> 
> Is there a reason why we do not use the standard directory layout?

It depends ;)
But I preffer /etc instead of /usr/etc. 
I overwrite sysconfdir for this exception only.

Piotras