Just to let everyone know that I found a solution to my problem. The correct search string in Google was 'automake "make examples"', where I could find Makefile.am's of people who had been there before. I could then extend those a bit so that "make clean" would also clean the examples.
============================================================================ SUBDIRS = ... DIST_SUBDIRS = $(SUBDIRS) examples .PHONY: examples clean-examples examples: all ( cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) ) clean-examples: ( cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean ) clean-local: clean-examples ============================================================================ Comments? Improvements? -- Simon Perreault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://nomis80.org