Re: Rarely rebuilt files

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On 11.11.2014 22:02, fr33domlover wrote:

>> If they are distributed, the distcheck target should not complain,
>> because it should expect the files to be there.

> The files are not specified in any variable with 'dist_' prefix. They are
> distributed because I wrote a dist-hook. Normally I would also add them to
> DISTCLEANFILES, but in this case I decided I prefer MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, 
> which
> is why `make distclean` doesn't remove them and the error is generated by 
> `make
> distcheck`.

I think you have found the solution: if you add them to automake's list
of distributed files, the error should go away.

You can use EXTRA_DIST for that, or use a regular variable which will
also give them an installation target directory.

   Simon