>>> "mcmahill" == mcmahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mcmahill> I'm trying to figure out whats going on here. I have mcmahill> a small project with a texinfo file in the doc/ mcmahill> directory. I have mcmahill> info_TEXINFOS= foo.texi mcmahill> BUILT_SOURCES= foo.texi (AFAICT, this doesn't seem to be a case where BUILT_SOURCES is needed: there is no "hidden" dependency upon foo.texi.) mcmahill> in Makefile.am and foo.texi gets created from mcmahill> foo.texi.in with autoconf (there are a handful of mcmahill> values which get propagated to several places mcmahill> including the documentation). Unfortunately Automake doesn't support _built_ Texinfo files :( If foo.texi is created by ./configure then foo.info is always rebuilt by `make all'. Thus there is no point in distributing foo.info, but you have no clean way to tell Automake that. (Similarly version.texi is always updated by `make all' to match to new modification date of `foo.texi', and it is distributed too.) `make distcheck' ensures you don't distribute files which get rebuilt by `make all'. No luck, that's precisely your case. [...] mcmahill> Is this a bug or a pilot error? An unsupported feature. What you need is a way to not distribute info files. There is another issue related to built Texinfo files you have probably encountered: when you run Automake, it wants to read `foo.texi'. However `foo.texi' might not exist yet at the time Automake is run. Sorry, I'm afraid this all isn't very helpful. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
