On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:40, Bruce Korb wrote: > Now it is clear to me. I did not understand the extra magic. > Thank you. I was relying on this: > > > It is possible to override the `SUBDIRS' variable if, > > like in the case of GNU `Inetutils', you want to only build > > a subset of the entire package. In your `Makefile.am' include: > > > > SUBDIRS = @MY_SUBDIRS@ > > > > Then in your `configure.in' you can specify: > > > > MY_SUBDIRS="src doc lib po" > > AC_SUBST(MY_SUBDIRS) > > :-( "Read the source, Luke"
Hmm: that documentation is fairly unhelpful. It was last updated 13-Feb-98: I'm guessing that was before DIST_SUBDIRS was invented. It should tell you to use SUBDIRS, and conditional variables, and DIST_SUBDIRS if SUBDIRS contains any configure substitutions. I'm afraid I havn't got time to write a documentation patch right now though... -- Richard
