Hi John, * John Ling wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:22:52PM CEST: > It seems that the m4 directory is required if I am to distribute a > package that makes use of libtools along with automake. Is there a way > to include this directory during a 'make dist' without defining it in > EXTRA_DIST in my Makefile.am? I would have thought that automake would > be able to include this directory and the necessary files such as > codeset.m4 on its own.
I'm not sure I understand what you are doing: you have a package foo which has some own m4 macro files in foo/m4/*.m4, and you use `aclocal -I m4' to have them used for your configure. Is that correct? If so, a recent Automake (>= 1.8 I believe) should include the m4 files automatically in the distribution. For compatibility with older Automaken, you might want to put them in EXTRA_DIST anyway. Regards, Ralf
