* Overwriting files in Makefile
@ 2005-05-12 15:56 Horst von Brand
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From: Horst von Brand @ 2005-05-12 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw
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The current setup disturbs me. The Makefile copies the scripts into the
destination, and then edits them in place. Why not just generate them from
.in files before installing, i.e. by a rule something like
%: %.in
sed -e 's;@LIBDIR@;$(sedlibdir);g' $^ > $@
with '@LIBDIR@' in the .in file whereever the substitution should take
place. This way you also avoid the possible loss of the permission bits
when fooling around (any SUID/SGID would get lost; not that it matters
here).
In any case, the '\/'s (LTS, "Leaning Toothpick Syndrome") when futzing
around with file paths can be avoided by using something else than '/' as
delimiter for sed(1)'s substitute command, like ';' here.
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