Hi,
The project I'm working on builds in both Windows and Linux. As you may
imagine, there are some conditional compilations and, in fact, sometimes full
files are left out. There are also some header files, and a python script for
auto-building a header file, which must be distributed too. It seemed that
EXTRA_DIST was the ticket for me.
I started adding this to the Makefile.am
EXTRA_DIST = path/to/prebuild.py path/to/header1.hpp path/to/header2.hpp \
path/to/header3.hpp path/to/header4.hpp
This worked just fine when I did "make dist". Then, when attempting another
build, I ran into the next scenario: headers not used on Linux but still part
of the distribution. "No problem," I think, and add it to the EXTRA_DIST
variable along with its companion code file. Well, I did so like this:
EXTRA_DIST = path/to/prebuild.py path/to/header1.hpp path/to/header2.hpp \
path/to/header3.hpp path/to/header4.hpp path/to/WindowsHeader.h \
path/to/WindowsSource.cpp
Then I do "autoreconf", "./configure" and finally, "make dist". Only this
time, I'm greeted with this:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `path/to/WindowsHeader.cpp', needed by
`distdir'. Stop.
I try taking out the *.cpp file and try again with the same error but with the
*.h. If I take out the *.h file, all is well again and "make dist" is happy
and fine. Why is it picky with files ending with *.cpp and *.h if these things
are extra to the distribution and have nothing to do with the build anyway?
Andy
