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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 18:06:21 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.alpha
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>  Modified files:
>    .                    Makefile.alpha 
>  Log:
>  Add `hdrs' to the beforeinstall for libss so that the headers are
>  available for install.
>  
>  I thought that was what beforeinstall was supposed to do. Sigh.

`beforeinstall' does any installation steps that must be done before
`realinstall'.  It is also abused to do special installation steps
where the order doesn't matter.  It is also abused by src/Makefile to
install only headers.  A full install would work to install only headers
in header-only directories, but wouldn't work in library directories.
`beforeinstall' happens to work in most library directories.  It doesn't
work in libss because one of the headers is generated.  `beforeinstall'
is part of `install' so it should not build anything.

Bruce

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