On Monday 26 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Saturday 24 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 September 2011, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > Hi Nick, thanks for the report.
> > 
> > > I noticed a problem testing the uninstall target of my
> > > automake-generated Makefiles.  If the install prefix does not exist
> > > before installation, automake will create the necessary directories.
> > > But if you run a plain "make install-data" (without make install-exec),
> > > the directories for executables are (unsurprisingly) not created.  The
> > > problem is that "make uninstall" fails in this case:
> > >
> > I'm not yet sure whether this should be considered a bug or a feature...
> > I'm inclined to agree with you that it's more of a bug though, so I'll
> > push the attached patch to maint in a few days if nobody objects.  This
> > change is not completely obvious, so any review would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Notice that the test coverage added by the patch is far from perfect, but
> > I'd rather improve it in the `testsuite-work' branch only, so that I'll
> > be able to use TAP and won't be forced to write 10 or so new "sister
> > tests" instead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >    Stefano
> > 
> 
Oops, the patch as I've pushed it was causing "make maintainer-check" to
fail.  I've pushed the attached follow-up to fix this.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano