On 12 November 2015 at 19:19, Will Estes <westes...@gmail.com> wrote: > and Makefile.am: > > check_PROGRAMS = test > > test_SOURCES = test.l > nodist_test_SOURCES = test.c > > I had to manually create the m4/ directory, but then: > > autoreconf -if && ./configure && make && make dist > > produces a tar ball with test.c in it. despite the nodist_test_SOURCES line. > > So what am I missing? >
I'd guess that nodit_test_SOURCES = test.c is wrong, because of this: "You should never explicitly mention the intermediate (C or C++) file in any SOURCES variable; only list the source file." http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Yacc-and-Lex.html I changed Makefile.am to check_PROGRAMS = test nodist_test_SOURCES = test.l #nodist_test_SOURCES = test.c then after "make dist": $tar tf basketcase-0.0.1.tar.gz basketcase-0.0.1/ basketcase-0.0.1/Makefile.in basketcase-0.0.1/aclocal.m4 basketcase-0.0.1/configure basketcase-0.0.1/Makefile.am basketcase-0.0.1/configure.ac basketcase-0.0.1/build-aux/ basketcase-0.0.1/build-aux/depcomp basketcase-0.0.1/build-aux/install-sh basketcase-0.0.1/build-aux/missing basketcase-0.0.1/build-aux/ylwrap basketcase-0.0.1/build-aux/compile I guess that's not what you want, because test.l isn't distributed there. Following Nick's suggestion to use dist-hook, the following appeared to give good results: check_PROGRAMS = test test_SOURCES = test.l dist-hook: rm -f ${distdir}/test.c With that, test.l is distributed but test.c isn't.
