Gavin Smith writes: > On 11 July 2015 at 06:38, Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote: > > I'm thinking I want to run a hook before the distdir target is run. > > > > What's a good way to do that? > > > > The reason for this is ... > > Could you do some trick with EXTRA_DIST? You could have a file that > only exists when the nested packages are configured that has to be > distributed.
I have been playing with this for a while now and this what I am currently using. I have a dependency on the distributed subdirectory in the build tree. If it's there, great. If it's not, I have a rule that will stop the 'make' (for at least gmake and pmake) telling the user that they need to --enable-local-libevent when running configure if they want to run any "dist" target. I would not be surprised to discover there are still corner cases, but for now this solution seems to be OK. Thanks! H
