Hi Jason, * Jason Kraftcheck wrote on Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:42:09PM CET: > I am working on the development of a set of libraries. The core of the > code is LGPL, but it includes several optional modules that require > proprietary libraries. The problem with the modules using proprietary > libraries is that the company that owns those libraries requies a > license agreement stating that we will not distribute any of our own > code that includes any of their headers, calls any of their functions, > etc. except to other licensees of their library. So we'd like to > distribute our library source both with and without our source for > accessing the proprietary libraries. So our source tree will have > optinion subdirectories. Is there any way to define things such that > automake a) doesn't fail when it cannot find the Makefile.am and b) > ignores entiries in the SUBDIRS (in the Makefile.am in the parent > directory) for subdirs that do not exist?
Easiest would be to separate the stuff as good as possible, and make the one part a subpackage (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS). Note this is only a technical advice and not a legal one. HTH, Ralf
