On 3/11/08, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote: > > > > I think I understand what you mean. Create a recursive build tree > > that allows starting from any point. I would then perhaps put this > > also in the trunk/Makefile.am: > > > > EXTRA_DIST=mingw-w64-headers mingw-w64-doc > > > > So that from the trunk directory, I could run 'make dist' and it would > > grab everything, yes? > > > > I had intended to do everything with non-recursive make, but as you > > pointed out once, non-recursive is also considered harmful. > > In what way is non-recursive considered harmful? > > This is what I use in my package to distribute directories that > automake otherwise does not know about: > > # Non-Automake subdirectories to distribute > DISTDIRS = images locale scenes scripts www PerlMagick TclMagick > dist-hook: > ( \ > builddir=`pwd` ; \ > cd $(srcdir) && \ > ( \ > for dir in $(DISTDIRS) ; do \ > find $$dir -depth -print | egrep -v > '(~$$)|(/CVS)|(/\.#)|(/\.deps)' \ > | cpio -pdum $$builddir/$(distdir) 2> /dev/null ; \ > done \ > ) \ > )
The issue here is that the extra directory in this case would be "../mingw-w64-headers" -- ie, it's one level higher up in the tree.
