Hi! We received a bug report recently: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424253
The problem seems to be that I want to make 'shishi.ps' part of the distribution archive (to provide easier access to the manual), and this works poorly with automake's default rules. In doc/Makefile.am I have: EXTRA_DIST = gdoc shishi.html shishi.pdf shishi.ps components.dia This leads to that ./configure && make clean will remove doc/shishi.ps for a user. How can I change the rules so that shishi.ps (and shishi.pdf and shishi.html) are only removed by 'make maintainer-clean'? That seems to be the appropriate rule to remove these files in, assuming (as I want to) that the files are generated by the maintainer. The cause seems to be the mostlyclean-aminfo rule, which in the generated Makefile looks like: mostlyclean-aminfo: -rm -rf shishi.aux shishi.cp shishi.cps shishi.fn shishi.fns shishi.ky \ shishi.kys shishi.log shishi.pg shishi.tmp shishi.toc \ shishi.tp shishi.vr shishi.vrs shishi.dvi shishi.pdf \ shishi.ps shishi.html Here I don't want shishi.{html,ps,pdf} to be included. Ideas? Is there some other way to achieve what I want (i.e., ship manuals in many formats and have them stick around after 'make clean') that I've missed? Thanks, Simon