On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 00:03 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > At Thursday 11 February 2010, Andreas Jellinghaus <a...@dungeon.inka.de> > wrote: > > Hi, > Hello Andreas. I'm by no means an expert on complex Automake usage, but > maybe I can provide a hint or two. > > > > we generate some docs with doxygen, others with a shell > > script using wget and xslt to download our wiki and > > create local html files from that). > > > > that mechanism is currently enabled with "--enable-doc", > > off by default as it is time-consuming and usualy not > > wanted. > > > > the problem I have is this: > > * I want people to checkout svn and compile and test the > > software without generating documentation. > > * if people want the docs, they should be able to create > > them too. > > > * if I run "make distcheck", I want the existing documentation > > to be included in the tar.gz file. > Maybe a dist-hook can help here: > - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/The-dist-Hook.html > A dist-hook can be especially useful if you don't know in advance the names > of all the files to be included in the distribution tarball, in which case > EXTRA_DIST is useless (and if I recall correctly, Doxygen generates *a lot* > of files when creating HTML output).
Actually, EXTRA_DIST can pull in a whole subdirectory. Wildcards work there as well. That doesn't help you with install; but you can add an install-data-local hook for that. -- Braden McDaniel <bra...@endoframe.com>
