I had a user point out that "make distclean" from within their VPATH build failed due to a missing, optional nested package. The nested package is called "tascel". I have in configure.ac:
AC_ARG_ENABLE([tascel], [omit for brevity], [], [enable_tascel=no]) AM_CONDITIONAL([ENABLE_TASCEL], [test "x$enable_tascel" = xyes]) ... AS_IF([test "x$enable_tascel" = xyes], [AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([tascel])]) Then in Makefile.am: SUBDIRS = armci . If ENABLE_TASCEL SUBDIRS += tascel endif I'm sure the Makefile is correct because we want to distributed tascel whether or not it's been configured. SUBDIRS = armci . DIST_SUBDIRS = armci . tascel Do I tell this user "don't do that" or did I do something wrong? Jeff