How to generate version.texi in builddir?

Hi all, I'm trying to change automake's behaviour to generate version.texi inside the builddir instead of srcdir. Based on https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Texinfo.html I've tried info-in-builddir , but that seems to affect only the final .info file and not the version.texi

How to include COPYING and COPYRIGHT in make install

e a Makefile.am file that has: EXTRA_DIST = COPYRIGHT COPYING SUBDIRS = src doc How do I get COPYING (and COPYRIGHT, etc) into the "make install" target? Thanks, Kirk Wolf

[PATCH] RFC: Added wildcard support to dirlist parsing

Hi, I wrote a little patch to aclocal for wildcard matchin in the dirlist parser: http://www.clifford.at/priv/aclocal-dirlist-glob.patch > Clifford Wolf: > Added wildcard support to the dirlist parser > > --- automake-1.9.3/aclocal.in 2005-10-17 13:06:07.000