On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 15:44 -0400, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > John Ling writes: > > Hi Ralf, yes that's exactly what I am trying to do. > > > > Since I'm using automake 1.7.7 then this is why it isn't including the > > m4 directory. > > > > I'll just use EXTRA_DIST for now then until I upgrade to a more recent > > Automake. > > > > Hi, > > I needed to use use EXTRA_DIST in a similar situation with > Automake version 1.9.3, in order for make distcheck to work. > > In my case, the m4 directory was empty, so as the following > comments describe it, I consider this to be a bug in Automake.
I think you are missing something. automake-1.9.x will distribute all the m4-files being used by a configure script, it will not distribute "all files below m4/" So, if you're not using the *.m4's inside of your m4/ directory, automake will not distribute anything. Ralf
