Re: make dist and BUILT_SOURCES

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Tromey" <address@hidden>
To: "Akim Demaille" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Robert Collins" <address@hidden>;
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: make dist and BUILT_SOURCES


> >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Robert> is there some way to exclude specific built sources from the
> Robert> disrtribution?
>
> Akim> Automake will always ship parsers and scanners, but I don't
> Akim> believe it ships all the BUILT_SOURCES.
>
> BUILT_SOURCES aren't automatically distributed.

Well... it was trying to :]. I've sent in an extract from Makefile.am,,
would you like a test case?


> With the cvs automake you have a lot more control over what is
> distributed than you used to.  Unfortunately this isn't documented :-(
>
> You can do something like this:
>
>     bin_PROGRAMS = foo
>     dist_foo_SOURCES = sources for foo that should dist
>     nodist_foo_SOURCES = sources for foo that shouldn't dist
>
> If you leave off dist/nodist then you get whatever the default is for
> the particular variable (it depends on the variable, for backwards
> compatibility).

can I do
bin_PROGRAMS = foo
foo_SOURCES = sources to be dist
nodist_foo_SOURCES = I think you can guess

Instead? Regardless the problem should be solved - thanks.

Rob

>
> Tom
>