Re: automake 'dist' target distributes built source file

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 19:19 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> automake-1.9.6 insists on distributing a file, although I have
>   - not listed it in EXTRA_DIST,
>   - listed it in BUILT_SOURCES and in CLEANFILES.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> ============================== Makefile.am ============================
> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.5 foreign
> 
> include_HEADERS = gettext-po.h
> EXTRA_DIST = gettext-po.h.in
> BUILT_SOURCES = gettext-po.h
> CLEANFILES = gettext-po.h
> 
> gettext-po.h: gettext-po.h.in
>       cp $(srcdir)/gettext-po.h.in gettext-po.h-tmp
>       mv gettext-po.h-tmp gettext-po.h
> =======================================================================
> 
> ============================= configure.ac ============================
> AC_INIT
> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(configure.ac)
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foo, 0.0)
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> AC_OUTPUT
> =======================================================================


> I want to distribute gettext-po.h.in, but I don't want to distribute
> gettext-po.h because it is actually platform dependent (not visible in
> this small example here).
> 
> How do I need to write this?

Replacing the "include_HEADERS" above with
nodist_include_HEADERS = gettext-po.h
should do what you want.

include_HEADERS are always distributed.

Ralf