I'm told EXTRA_DIST files are optional - automake will include them if they exist, but also go on, if those files do not exist.
so what do I use to include some file in the distribution, but not have automake do anything with it (change/install/..)? so far my Makefile.am uses EXTRA_DIST in some places, but I want automake to fail if the files are not there. (the files are not used by anything on unix/linux/gnu/mingw, for example "Makefile.mak" files for building with visual stdio/c). dist_DATA or something like that? Thanks, Andreas