Bugs/Features in handling of continued Makefile rules

2001-09-19 Thread dpovey
If automake doesn't recognise a line in a Makefile.am, it assumes that it is the continuation of a Makefile rule. In having a look at the code, I think there are a few problems with the way this is handled, particularly with regards to the handling of comments. 1. If an umatched line continues

Bug in distdir (Automake 1.5)

2001-09-17 Thread dpovey
Hi all, Ran across the following in Automake 1.5 which I believe is a bug. If you include a directory in EXTRA_DIST that is in the build dir, it does not get included in the distribution. For example when using the following Makefile.am: EXTRA_DIST=foo foo: mkdir foo touch fo