severity 10997 minor thanks Hi Daiki, thanks for the report. On 03/12/2012 05:55 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote: > I got a bug report for my package, which conditionally installs some > scripts into pkglibexecdir like this: > > if ENABLE_FOO > pkglibexec_SCRIPTS = bar > endif > > where pkglibexec* is not referred outside of if...endif. When "make > install", automake creates pkglibexecdir even when ENABLE_FOO is false. > > I'm attaching a prove which demonstrates the behavior. > I agree it would be nice to avoid creating directories that are not actually needed; still, this is a low-priority bug, and I'm not yet sure how difficult it would be to fix. For the moment, I've committed (in your name) the test case you've sent us (with minor tweakings), so that the bug will at least remain exposed in the testsuite. Attached is the patch I've pushed (to maint). Thanks, Stefano