Re: Can I control the behavior of `make install` ?

["Claudio Bley" <bley cs uni-magdeburg de>]

> > > > > "Zenith" == Zenith Lau <zenithlau sniic com> writes:

    Zenith> Hello everybody !!  I have a question regarding the
    Zenith> conventional make process, yet, there is nothing wrong as
    Zenith> long as the ./configure;make;make install is simple enough
    Zenith> when comparing with long times ago. But, I find the,
    Zenith> during make install, it will install all the docs and .mo
    Zenith> files. It's doubtlessly for me, that, not all of the mo is
    Zenith> useful. Actually I only use english interface, and
    Zenith> occassionally, chinese for testing..

    Zenith>     Can I control the 'make install' so that, I won't
    Zenith> install all the stuff. For example, can I use some
    Zenith> env. var. to do so, so edit some well-known variables in
    Zenith> the Makefiles??

I think you may either edit configure.in changing the value of the
ALL_LINGUAS variable and re-running autoconf then ./configure; make
install OR you re-define the CATALOGS variable when installing: `make
CATALOGS="de.gmo" install`.

    Zenith>     I'm not familiar with the make/autoxxx framework, so I
    Zenith> even don't know how to get relevant reference for it, thx
    Zenith> a lot!

info auto{conf,make} etc. ?

HTH
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