On Friday, 13 November 2015, 11:43 am -0500, Nick Bowler <nbow...@draconx.ca> wrote:
> This will probably work fine, but this has the potential problem that > test.c will be built every time you run 'make dist', just to be deleted > immediately. This may or may not be a concern for you, but the likely > consequence is that lex will be required to run 'make dist', even though > it would otherwise not be required. > > My original suggestion was to try something like this (not tested): It is unfortunate, yes, but since automake already pulls in a requirement to have a lex on the build system, I can live with the slow down / extra disk I/O. > > EXTRA_DIST = > > nodist_test_SOURCES = test.l > EXTRA_DIST += $(nodist_test_SOURCES) Thanks for the reminder. I haven't tested this, but the dist-hook approach works beautifully, given that I'm ok with the build and then delete that happens. > > Cheers, > Nick > -- Will Estes westes...@gmail.com
