* Makefile.am (install-data-local): Wipe out old installation

pkgdatadir before installing new files.
* NEWS: Updated.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bd7fc84d3f9ce43b6cec8a25bc9741e815ac65fc..2ddf4882be8d237fa5cfa58fc147376efa1ace42 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2003-11-07  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
+       * Makefile.am (install-data-local): Wipe out old installation
+       pkgdatadir before installing new files.
+       * NEWS: Updated.
+
        * m4/libtoolize.in (func_scan_files): If libtoolize is run before
        automake has created install-sh and configure.ac does not mention
        AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, fall back to the current directory for auxdir.

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 2f537d1936832ccb8c1659a15b063899af930602..02125358eb5023ba4840129b66df7900e869867a 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ configure-subdirs distdir: $(DIST_MAKEFILE_LIST)
        abs_srcdir=`cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd`; \
        (cd $$dir && $$abs_srcdir/$$dir/configure) || exit 1
 
+# Don't install over the top of an old pkgdatadir
+install-data-local:
+       -rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)
+
 # Create and install libltdl
 install-data-hook:
        cd libltdl && $(MAKE) local-install-files

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 47ad6a2efdf4df39d08f96754708554a6e9037d5..6950f7d815a66a1954e51c5020b217a6b40f7be8 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ New in 1.5b: 2003-??-??; CVS version 1.5a, Libtool team:
 * Mode inferrence removed, shorthand for choosing modes added.
 * Specifying -allow-undefined is now an error.
 * Speed up max_cmd_len check.
+* make install now deletes preexisting $prefix/share/libtool before installing
+  latest files.
 * Extracting symbols from an import library on cygwin and win32 now works.
 * Recognises the 'R' symbol type on Solaris so read-only symbols can be
   exported.