Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] make distclean deletes idl2eth

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:49:48 -0700
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:32:19PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> when doing a "make distclean" with the current cvs-tree the file idl2eth
> gets deleted as part of bin_PROGRAMS. I don't have an ad hoc idea of how
> to fix this as bin_PROGRAMS is used not only for deleting the files but
> also for installing them.

In a number of cases, a package that includes shell scripts to be
installed gives the script a name ending in ".sh", so that "foo.sh" is
the "source code" for the script, and "foo" is the "generated binary"
for the script.

autoconf, for example, does this.