The STAR_MANIFEST_DIR substitution variable
is slightly special. If it is
defined in your
configure.ac file, then Starlink automake
will include in the generated Makefile.in
code to create and install a manifest of all the files
installed.
If you set this variable at installation time:
then this overrides the manifest location defaulted at configure time. If the variable is set to be null (make STAR_MANIFEST_DIR=/my/special/manifest install
make STAR_MANIFEST_DIR= install)
then you will suppress the creation and installation of
the manifest.You define it as follows:
: ${STAR_MANIFEST_DIR='$(prefix)/manifests'}
AC_SUBST(STAR_MANIFEST_DIR)
$(prefix)/manifests, but allows it to be
overridden by a setting of the variable in the
environment. Note that is is set to be relative to the
value of the $(prefix) makefile variable.You do not have to set this in general, as this
is one of the things that the
STAR_DEFAULTS
macro (Appendix A.17) takes care of. The
only time you need to use this feature is when you are
importing a third-party code set into the tree (as
described in Section 4.5). In that
case, you do not want to specify STAR_DEFAULTS in the
configure.ac, but you do need to install a
manifest. If there is more than one
configure.ac file in the tree, you will have
to add this for each one.
See also Appendix A.27.