At Thursday 11 February 2010, Andreas Jellinghaus <a...@dungeon.inka.de> wrote: > Hi, Hello Andreas. I'm by no means an expert on complex Automake usage, but maybe I can provide a hint or two. > > we generate some docs with doxygen, others with a shell > script using wget and xslt to download our wiki and > create local html files from that). > > that mechanism is currently enabled with "--enable-doc", > off by default as it is time-consuming and usualy not > wanted. > > the problem I have is this: > * I want people to checkout svn and compile and test the > software without generating documentation. > * if people want the docs, they should be able to create > them too.
> * if I run "make distcheck", I want the existing documentation > to be included in the tar.gz file. Maybe a dist-hook can help here: - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/The-dist-Hook.html A dist-hook can be especially useful if you don't know in advance the names of all the files to be included in the distribution tarball, in which case EXTRA_DIST is useless (and if I recall correctly, Doxygen generates *a lot* of files when creating HTML output). > * if I run "make maintainer-clean", I want generate documentation > to be removed, so I can diff between a modified checkout and > an unmodified svn checkout. As already pointeided out by Gaetan, writing a `maintainer-clean-local' target can be useful here; you can find more information at: - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Clean.html - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Extending.html HTH, Stefano
