On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter <simon.rich...@hogyros.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.11.2014 22:02, fr33domlover wrote: > > >> If they are distributed, the distcheck target should not complain, > >> because it should expect the files to be there. > > > The files are not specified in any variable with 'dist_' prefix. They are > > distributed because I wrote a dist-hook. Normally I would also add them to > > DISTCLEANFILES, but in this case I decided I prefer MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, > > which is why `make distclean` doesn't remove them and the error is > > generated by `make distcheck`. > > I think you have found the solution: if you add them to automake's list > of distributed files, the error should go away. > > You can use EXTRA_DIST for that, or use a regular variable which will > also give them an installation target directory. > > Simon >
I already added them to EXTRA_DIST (actually added the whole folder and a dist-hook that `rm`s the auxiliary files), but also to MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, so they don't get removed by `make distclean`. That's fine - this is what I want. But it (naturally) causes `make distcheck` to complain and fail.
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