So I've been doing some digging and I don't see how to work around this problem.
automake-1.5 will not let me override RECURSIVE-TARGETS. I've added empty rulesets for: dvi: dvi-am: dvi-recursive: and distcheck is *still* trying to do a "make dvi" in the SUBDIR. Ideas? In the fragment below, perl-modules/ has a Makefile generated via automake, but the Makefile in PIKT-Random has one generated for a perl module, which has no dvi rules (and I'd prefer to avoid adding extra rules just to get the distcheck target to work). H -- ... Making dvi in perl-modules gmake[2]: Entering directory `/a/local/etc/amd.stage/spot/._d/da0s1f/src/Networking/Monitor/pikt/pikt/A.freebsd4/pikt-1.15.0pre5/=build/perl-modules' Making dvi in PIKT-Random gmake[3]: Entering directory `/a/local/etc/amd.stage/spot/._d/da0s1f/src/Networking/Monitor/pikt/pikt/A.freebsd4/pikt-1.15.0pre5/=build/perl-modules/PIKT-Random' gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `dvi'. Stop.