Distributing scripts using autotools

I would like to distribute my startup script with my app. Its called "blah" and it resides in the scripts/ folder of my project. I have this in my configure.ac:

... 
AC_CONFIG_FILES([
    Makefile
    开发者_如何学运维scripts/Makefile
    ....
])

AC_CONFIG_FILES([scripts/blah], [chmod +x scripts/blah])

AC_OUTPUT

In the scripts directory I do have the following Makefile.am:

dist_bin_SCRIPTS = blah
CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)

In the same dir I do have "blah.in" file.

But when I do "make install" it does create scripts/blah, bot does not install it to the /usr/local/bin directory. What is wrong with my setup? Thanks

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If you have AC_CONFIG_FILES([scripts/blah], ...) to create script/blah from script/blah.in then you should only distribute script/blah.in (this happens automatically as a side effect of using AC_CONFIG_FILES) and not distribute script/blah.

Your Makefile should read

bin_SCRIPTS = blah   # not dist_bin_SCRIPTS
CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)

If you simply want to distribute and install the script as-is, without generating it with configure, use only

dist_bin_SCRIPTS = blah

and omit CLEANFILES as well as the AC_CONFIG_FILES line.

Now this is not your real bug. Looking at your github files I can see that scripts does not appear in the SUBDIRS variable of your root Makefile.am. Therefore make install is not recursing into that subdirectory and does not install the script.

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Are you sure you need to specify:

AC_CONFIG_FILES([scripts/blah], [chmod +x scripts/blah])

?

For me, autotools generate blah.in, because they think, you blah script is a makefile. Try removing this line, tell what happens.