Re: How to remove $(EXEEXT) from gnuplot-tikz.lua$(EXEEXT) appeared in Makefile.in

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> Yes, this is a problem with autotools.

Actually, it's more a problem with how we use them.

> Because the file is installed in $libexecdir, the autotools think it is an executable
> and therefore they add the extension $(EXEEXT).

No.  It thinks so because we told it so, by listing gnuplot-tikz.lua in 
gnuplotlibexec_PROGRAMS.  It's the _PROGRAMS part that makes this a 
presumed binary executable, and causes $(EXEEXT) to be added to its name.

To me it looks like the lua section in src/Makefile.am should just be

pkglibexec_SCRIPTS =
if BUILD_LUA
pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += gnuplot-tikz.lua
endif

(or possibly that should be dist_pkglibexec_SCRIPTS) For the details see 
"info automake other scripts".

Strictly speaking scripts shouldn't go to $libexecdir, nor a 
subdirectory of it, like our $pkglibexecdir.  They belong in the 
platform-independent directories, e.g. $pkgdatadir.  That way, even if 
you install to a $prefix shared by multiple binary architectures, you 
would still only copy of them.