Hi all, I have a project using autotools that also has "sub-projects". http://edoc.sourceforge.net/
Basically this project requires patched versions of the GCC and doxygen projects. To make life easy for the person compiling from sources i get my configure script to unpack the sources for these projects, apply patches and then configure those sources in such a way that invoking make and make install on my project will also build and install those two patched projects. Unfortunately i have been unable to use the standard AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS macro in autoconf mostly due to the differences in the configure parameters of the three projects and other issues that arise from doxygen not using automake for its build. I have most of it working, but when i invoke certain targets one example is the distclean target, i want to stop distclean being called recursively into the sub-projects directories. I.e. I have: $srcdir/Makefile.am $srcdir/src/Makefile.am $srcdir/patched/Makefile.am and in the buildir i configure gcc and doxygen into subdirs of: $builddir/patched/... $buildir/patched/gcc-4.0.1/Makefile $buildir/patched/doxygen-1.5.1/Makefile When i do a make distclean i want to perform the distclean as normal for all directories EXCEPT when descending into $builddir/patched When distclean is recursively invoked in the patched subdir, i want to perform a rm -r gcc-4.0.1 doxygen-1.5.1 and then ensure that the distclean does NOT recursively propagate into the subdirs: gcc-4.0.1 and doxygen-1.5.1 How would I go about doing this with automake? Thanks, Brendon.
