Hello Presario, * Presario Smith wrote on Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:15:33AM CET: > > I'm writing to ask how to exclude the COPYING file from the > distribution. When I type > "make dist", the distribution will automatically contain that file. > However, the license of my software is in the LICENSE file, and I > don't want the GNU GPL in COPYING.
Don't have a COPYING file lying around in your source tree at 'make dist' time. Use the `foreign' Automake option to not require it, either as automake --foreign or as option argument to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in configure.ac, or assign it to the variable AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in the toplevel Makefile.am. To list the set of files which automake distributes automatically if found, type automake --help Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
