On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Andreas Jellinghaus <a...@dungeon.inka.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag 04 März 2010 03:31:04 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: >> > ah. ok, so back to the drawing board for my plan with >> > optional documentation (see the thread a week ago or so). >> >> You can use either of >> - wildcards, >> EXTRA_DIST = pattern* >> >> - automake conditionals, >> if COND >> EXTRA_DIST += files... >> endif >> >> - or plain old configure substitutions for variable content in >> EXTRA_DIST. >> EXTRA_DIST = file @list_of_files@ $(more_files) > > ok,thanks. will try wildcard. > "*html" as patter will also work, if there is not even a single > html file? > > Andreas > > >
If the wildcard doesn't match, I'm pretty sure you get some kind of error trying to find a file called "*html".
