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automake should allow preinst target
- To: automake@gnu.org
- Subject: automake should allow preinst target
- From: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:00:53 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: 22952-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>
- Reply-to: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
A Debian user of automake has made the following suggestion for
automake.
The only install hooks that automake provides (eg. install-data-local)
are postinst hooks. Though the GNU coding standards documents a
preinst behaviour, automake does not allow to use this.
There should be something like `pre-install-data-local', and the
install targets should be expanded like:
install-data: pre-install-data-local install-pkgdataDATA install-data-local
Kevin Dalley
kevind@rahul.net