On 12/04/10 14:59, Peter Johansson wrote:
Jef Driesen wrote:
mylib_la_SOURCES += version.c
mylib_HEADERS += version.h
BUILT_SOURCES = version.h
EXTRA_DIST += $(srcdir)/version
CLEANFILES += version-t
Took me a while to figure out the escaping of the @ symbol. It seems
to work fine, except that I would like to add "$(srcdir)/version.h.in"
as a dependency for "version.h". But when I add that, make distcheck
fails and I don't know why.
The error I get is:
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../../src/version.h.in', needed
by `version.h'. Stop.
Looks like you're not distributing `version.h.in'. I would try adding
`EXTRA_DIST = version.h.in'.
My version.h used to be generated in configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES), and
hence it was distributed automatically. Forgot about that detail when I
moved it to the makefile. Silly mistake :-)
Also, I would try avoid distributing
`version.h', but not sure how to do that from top of my head.
Why would you not distribute it?
I think it's very useful that it gets distributed. Imagine someone
downloads a tarball and wants to built it with the msvc compiler (which
I support for my project). Since no files can be generated in that (non
autotools) environment, that works fine *if* the generated files are
distributed.
When I used to generate those files from configure.ac, they were
distributed as well.