Distributing scripts using autotools

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
    开发者_如何学运维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

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.

Are you sure you need to specify:

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

?

For me, autotools generate blah.in, because they think, you blah script is a makefile. Try removing this line, tell what happens.