On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:32, dc wrote:
> AFAIK There's a third possibility : you could setup a dist-hook target
> in Makefile.am which allows you to specify completely your dist rule (I
> had the same problem than yours and used this method). Unfortunately, it
> also means that you might have to update this rule each time you change
> metadata in your source tree.
Thanks for the response. After a bit of a long holiday break, I am back
trying to get this to work. As a quick review, my Makefile.am is not
located in the top-level of my directory structure and is causing a
problem with make dist. Changing this structure is beyond my control,
so I'm stuck with what's there. Therefore, I've tried a number of
attempts at writing a dist-hook as suggested above. However, I have
again run into problems.
When I run make dist, it populates the distdir, but due to the use of
manual VPATHs (i.e. ../..), what it actually populates is above the
distdir - all that ends up in this directory is the DIST_COMMON stuff.
So, my plan is to have the dist-hook delete the mess created by the
VPATH stuff, and then copy the necessary files into the distdir manually
before it gets tarred up (if there is a better way to approach this,
please advise). Here is an example of my attempt:
ISRC = $(srcdir)/../../include
[snip]
dist-hook:
rm -rf $(distdir)/$(ISRC) \
mkdir $(distdir)/include \
cp -pR $(ISRC) $(distdir)/include
Now, the rm command deletes as expected, but the mkdir and cp don't seem
to do anything. As before, I only end up with a tar.gz of the
DIST_COMMON files, which are the only files in the distdir. Does anyone
have a suggestion on how to proceed, or perhaps someone could point out
the flaw in my reasoning? Thanks very much!
Best Regards,
Scott
> /// didier
>
> Le mar 09/12/2003 Ã 21:19, J. Scott Amort a Ãcrit :
> > Thanks for the response!
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 08:05, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> > > i see from the previous post that you use a "manual VPATH" methodology.
> > > there are two approaches you can try:
> > >
> > > 1/ undo the unorthodoxy (move auto* files to top-level dir)
> > > 2/ prefix relative paths (such as "../../") w/ $(srcdir)
> >
> > I gave #2 a try, and it didn't change the output of make dist. However,
> > moving everything into the top-level dir (#1) did solve the problem.
> > Unfortunately, I don't currently have any control over the directory
> > structure (the motivation behind the attempt is to keep platform
> > specific items, i.e. *nix makefiles, VC++ 6 project files, etc. in
> > subdirectories away from the source files). I'll speak to the powers
> > that be and see about getting this changed. Thanks again.
