Re: What *target* use for non-source files want to add to package like DATA?

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:23:02PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> my_datadir        = $(pkgdatadir)/blah
> dist_my_data_DATA = datafile1 datafile2 datafile3
> EXTRA_DIST        = $(dist_my_data_DATA)
> 
> When I compile from top of source tree, it crashes at this
> data directory with the message,
> 
> "No rule to make target `all'."

A stab in the dark: Automake uses "_" to delimit subfields within
macro names, so perhaps the extra one in "my_data" is confusing
it.  See if this works better:

> mydatadir        = $(pkgdatadir)/blah
> dist_mydata_DATA = datafile1 datafile2 datafile3
> EXTRA_DIST        = $(dist_mydata_DATA)

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