Re: How to setup an example programs subdirectory?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 13:08 -0500, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Just to let everyone know that I found a solution to my problem. The correct 
> search string in Google was 'automake "make examples"', where I could find 
> Makefile.am's of people who had been there before. I could then extend those 
> a bit so that "make clean" would also clean the examples.
> 
> ============================================================================
> SUBDIRS = ...
> DIST_SUBDIRS = $(SUBDIRS) examples
> 
> .PHONY: examples clean-examples
> 
> examples: all
>     ( cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) )
> 
> clean-examples:
>     ( cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean )
> 
> clean-local: clean-examples
> ============================================================================
> 
> Comments? Improvements?
It is a bad example.

The Makefile-fragment above works around automake by using manually
written make rules - I would recommend you not to use it.

Ralf