On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Russ Allbery<r...@stanford.edu> wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes: > >> Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory >> stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere >> with automake's stamps and rules: >> >> subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp >> commands ... >> subdir/my-dirstamp: >> @$(MKDIR_P) subdir >> @: > $@ >> DISTCLEANFILES += subdir/my-dirstamp > > A possibly simpler way, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, is > to do this at configure time: > > AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([tests/data/.placeholder], [touch tests/data/.placeholder])
I think that in my case, getting configure to do this for me looks like the most sensible approach, since the *clean targets won't remove directories. Thanks Ralf and Russ. -- Jack
