On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 16:28, Bruce Korb wrote: > > >> Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? > > > Bruce> 2. Even now that I've read it, using it would mean taking over > > Bruce> an automatable chore from automake. > > > > I don't get this. Which chore should be automated? > > Maintaining the contents of DIST_SUBDIRS. If I make an assignment > to it, then I am responsible for its contents. I wish to leave it > up to the automake system.
This should be possible. However, automake has problems calculating DIST_SUBDIRS if you use autoconf substitutions in SUBDIRS, because it doesn't know what the possible values that autoconf is going to substitute are. Use conditional automake variables instead - then automake will be able to calculate the correct value for DIST_SUBDIRS by taking all possible values for SUBDIRS. So: if BAR MAYBE_BAR = bar fi SUBDIRS = foo $(MAYBE_BAR) DIST_SUBDIRS is automatically calculated as "foo bar" bar/Makefile.in should always be configured (though it may not be used in particular configurations): so put it in AC_CONFIG_FILES together with Makefile.in and foo/Makefile.in. I'm not sure why you would get conflicts from this: I've done exactly the above (well, different filenames) several times with no problems. -- Richard
