Re: how to add a dependency to destdir?

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

 Bruno> Hi,

 Bruno> How can I add a dependency to the 'distdir' target, as
 Bruno> generated by automake

Generally you can't add dependencies to Automake rules.  This is
because Automake doesn't differentiate Makefile rules that
specify commands from Makefile rules that specify only
dependencies.  If you write `distdir: foobar', Automake will
assume you want to override its `distdir:' rule.

This sucks, but the Automake guts are not ready to make this
difference.  (That's a "to do", though.)

 Bruno> and as invoked by the parent directory's Makefile? I
 Bruno> need to update some files before a release.

And these files aren't already in $(DISTFILES)?  Maybe you are
looking for `dist-hook' then.

[...]

 Bruno> How can I achieve this? The only way I've found is to comment out the
 Bruno> dependency line in Makefile.am:
 Bruno> ========================= Makefile.am =======================
 Bruno> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.5 foreign no-dependencies

 Bruno> subconfigure:
 Bruno> echo "created by autoconf" > subconfigure

 Bruno> #distdir: subconfigure
 Bruno> =============================================================
 Bruno> and to postprocess the Makefile so as to remove the '#' mark.
 Bruno> This is hardly satisfactory.

I guess another workaround would be to use an empty variable so
that Automake doesn't recognize the distdir rule.

dist$(emptyhack)dir: subconfigure
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz