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Re: PATCH for "make distcheck" failure
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:40, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Now it is clear to me. I did not understand the extra magic.
> Thank you. I was relying on this:
>
> > It is possible to override the `SUBDIRS' variable if,
> > like in the case of GNU `Inetutils', you want to only build
> > a subset of the entire package. In your `Makefile.am' include:
> >
> > SUBDIRS = @MY_SUBDIRS@
> >
> > Then in your `configure.in' you can specify:
> >
> > MY_SUBDIRS="src doc lib po"
> > AC_SUBST(MY_SUBDIRS)
>
> :-( "Read the source, Luke"
Hmm: that documentation is fairly unhelpful. It was last updated
13-Feb-98: I'm guessing that was before DIST_SUBDIRS was invented.
It should tell you to use SUBDIRS, and conditional variables, and
DIST_SUBDIRS if SUBDIRS contains any configure substitutions. I'm
afraid I havn't got time to write a documentation patch right now
though...
--
Richard