Appending to builtin Automake variables from an included file

What is the cleanest to way to append something to a builtin variable (e.g. MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) from an Automake "header". For example I want all of my Makefiles to delete the Makefile.in by the maintainer-clean target. The way I currently do this is: --- am/global.am --- GLOBAL_MAINT

Re: Built sources and make distcheck

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Allan Caffee wrote on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:43:02AM CET: > > Although I must admit I'm not sure what he means by > > > > [...] this shouldn't matter for read-only trees iff your > > > > dependencies are set up correctly [...] > > I'm not really sur

Re: Appending to builtin Automake variables from an included file

On Thursday 2009-02-26 00:44, Allan Caffee wrote: > >What is the cleanest to way to append something to a builtin variable >(e.g. MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) from an Automake "header".[...] >Is there a cleaner, ideally non-invasive method for >adding things to these builtin lists? In one project I use