On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:59 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > At Friday 12 February 2010, Braden McDaniel <bra...@endoframe.com> > wrote: > > Actually, EXTRA_DIST can pull in a whole subdirectory. > Thank you for the information, I didn't know that (or I forgot it). I > guess It's time for me to re-read the Automake documentation. > > Wildcards work there as well. > Mmhhh... technically, you are right on this point too (as can be seen > by reading any Automake-generated makefile), but I couldn't find > anything about this "feature" in the manual... Are you sure that > wildcards in EXTRA_DIST are supported "by design" rather than as > a side-effect of implementation details? In the last case, it could be > a bad idea to exploit that "feature".
I have no idea. It's worked that way for a long time. While in general I agree with the Automake philosophy regarding wildcards, Doxygen integration is one place where they make a whole lot of sense. I hope the Automake maintainers don't decide to break this. But if they do, we still have dist-hook. -- Braden McDaniel <bra...@endoframe.com>
