Re: automake/396: INSTALL_SCRIPTS used but not set for a scriptheavy automake file.

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz <aduret at src dot lip6 dot fr>]

The following reply was made to PR automake/396; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <aduret@src.lip6.fr>
To: mbletzin@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Cc: automake-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: automake/396: INSTALL_SCRIPTS  used but not set for a script
 heavy automake file.
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:41:32 +0200

 >>> "mbletzin" == mbletzin  <mbletzin@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
 
 [...]
 
  mbletzin> The script install targets fail because the make
  mbletzin> macro INSTALL_SCRIPTS is not set.  An example target
  mbletzin> failure is install-gptexecshareSCRIPTS.  The
  mbletzin> config.status contains a substitution for
  mbletzin> INSTALL_SCRIPTS but the Makefile.in generated by
  mbletzin> automake does not declare the macro.
 
  >> How-To-Repeat:
 
  mbletzin> Untar the attached file and run the following.  You
  mbletzin> will see the Makefile.in does not set
  mbletzin> INSTALL_SCRIPTS.
 
 Works for me. 
 
 % grep INSTALL_SCRIPT Makefile.in
 INSTALL_SCRIPT = @INSTALL_SCRIPT@
 gptexecshareSCRIPT_INSTALL = $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
 libexecSCRIPT_INSTALL = $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
 sbinSCRIPT_INSTALL = $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
 
 
  mbletzin> echo "running automake -c -a --foreign"
  mbletzin> automake_path=`which automake`
  mbletzin> echo "automake path = $automake_path"
  mbletzin> automake -c -a --foreign
 
  mbletzin> echo "running aclocal"
  mbletzin> aclocal_path=`which aclocal`
  mbletzin> echo "aclocal path = $aclocal_path"
  mbletzin> aclocal
 
  mbletzin> echo "running autoconf"
  mbletzin> autoconf_path=`which autoconf`
  mbletzin> echo "autoconf path = $autoconf_path"
  mbletzin> autoconf
 
 The proper order is aclocal;autoconf;automake but you should
 really use autoreconf instead of trying to remember that.
 
  >> Fix:
 
  mbletzin> I need some help in determining how the macro
  mbletzin> declarations in the Makefile.in are generated in
  mbletzin> order to debug this any further.  I have looked at
  mbletzin> the /share/am directory with out any luck.
 
 INSTALL_SCRIPT is AC_SUBSTed by Autoconf.  Automake finds it
 like all the other AC_SUBSTed variables, by running `autoconf -t
 AC_SUBST' in scan_autoconf_traces().
 
 Try running this on your test case, you should see
 
 % autoconf -t AC_SUBST | grep INSTALL
 configure.ac:5:AC_SUBST:INSTALL_PROGRAM
 configure.ac:5:AC_SUBST:INSTALL_SCRIPT
 configure.ac:5:AC_SUBST:INSTALL_DATA
 configure.ac:5:AC_SUBST:INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM
 
 -- 
 Alexandre Duret-Lutz