avoiding target $(srcdir)/Makefile.in

[john heasley]

is there a macro or option to automake to ommit the target
for $(srcdir)/Makefile.in, such that it is not necessary to
include Makefile.am and configure.in in a distribution?

i tried including an empty target in Makefile.am.  it looks
as if it is created in the perl code and there dont appear
to be any conditionals to avoid it.

-heas