For example, the solution below does not work for "distclean".
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Harlan Stenn writes:
> 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
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