>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Roger> In the gimp-print source tree, there are a number of Roger> files which we ship in the distributed tarball Roger> pre-built. These are PDF and HTML versions of SGML Roger> manuals and PostScript versions of Texinfo manuals. We Roger> do not want an end-user to have to have these tools Roger> installed. The SGML tools are notoriously fragile (they Roger> are currently partly broken on my system!), and not all Roger> systems will have a teTeX installation. Roger> Maintainer mode is used to modify what is cleaned. If Roger> maint-mode is not enabled, then the pre-built files will Roger> never be cleaned. To some extent, this deviates from the conventions that Automake tries to help you follow. `make clean' and `make distclean' are not expected to clean a file which is distributed: one generally uses `make maintainer-clean' to clean files that requires maintainer tools. An AM_MAINTAINER_MODE-free project could simply have these PDF and HTML files listed in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. Another approach would be to check for the SGML tools in configure, define an AM_CONDITIONAL for this, and define your clean rule conditionally. (BTW, I think the following a bug in Automake: there are some files it always cleans for you, without wondering whether they are distributed or not. Unfortunately the postscripts built by the Texi rules are amongst them; so, somehow, it makes sense that you clean the PDF and HTML at the same time.) [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
