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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:17:45+00:00

I would like to distribute my startup script with my app. Its called blah

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I would like to distribute my startup script with my app. Its called “blah” and it resides in the scripts/ folder of my project. I have this in my configure.ac:

... 
AC_CONFIG_FILES([
    Makefile
    scripts/Makefile
    ....
])

AC_CONFIG_FILES([scripts/blah], [chmod +x scripts/blah])

AC_OUTPUT

In the scripts directory I do have the following Makefile.am:

dist_bin_SCRIPTS = blah
CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)

In the same dir I do have “blah.in” file.

But when I do “make install” it does create scripts/blah, bot does not install it to the /usr/local/bin directory. What is wrong with my setup? Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have AC_CONFIG_FILES([scripts/blah], ...) to create script/blah from script/blah.in then you should only distribute script/blah.in (this happens automatically as a side effect of using AC_CONFIG_FILES) and not distribute script/blah.

    Your Makefile should read

    bin_SCRIPTS = blah   # not dist_bin_SCRIPTS
CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)

    If you simply want to distribute and install the script as-is, without generating it with configure, use only

    dist_bin_SCRIPTS = blah

    and omit CLEANFILES as well as the AC_CONFIG_FILES line.

    Now this is not your real bug. Looking at your github files I can see that scripts does not appear in the SUBDIRS variable of your root Makefile.am. Therefore make install is not recursing into that subdirectory and does not install the script.

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