James Willenbring wrote: > Some of our developers find it especially painful to list individual files. > Is there any way that we can add all files with a certain suffix to the list > of files that are included in our distribution by default, or even include > files that match some pattern?
The standard answer to your question is given by this documentation: http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#wildcards The developers (me too) feel that it is better to avoid including files dynamically. Personally I have worked with 'mkmf' and have experienced problems with people dynamically including files that were not desired. That experience puts me on the side that likes the files to be explicitly listed. > The specific issue we are looking at right now is how we can add a > large number of documentation files to the tarball without listing > each file. You could script the editing of the Makefile.am file such that they are populated with the list of files that you want. Using commands such as 'find' can generate the file list very easily. find . -name '*.txt' -printf ' %P \\\n' find docdir -name '*.txt' -printf ' %p \\\n' Then simply include that file list into the Makefile.am file. Bob
