On 22 September 2015 at 18:12, Andy Falanga (afalanga) <afala...@micron.com> wrote: > My project has some doc files which are currently generated by the > parsing engine of Visual Studio. Our plan is to simply generate them, > periodically, and include them with our Linux build via autotools. I'm > not sure of how to include them though. EXTRA_DIST isn't the answer > because they are things which are *not* to be installed. These files > aren't necessary for the build which means I don't need them in the > directives/primaries. What is the Makefile.am magic I'm looking for > which will include these extras in the installation but not include them > in the build?
I previously wrote out a reply and then deleted it when I read your email again. But maybe it was what you wanted. I was going to suggest using a variable based on the DATA "primary", in Automake's terminology. E.g. dist_foo_DATA = file.doc to install foo.doc in ${foodir}.