On Thursday, 12 November 2015, 9:41 pm +0000, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Thanks. That does what I'm looking for and I can scale that up to the entire test suite with a bit of effort. -- Will Estes westes...@gmail.com
