Re: 'make dist' and m4 directory

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi John,

* John Ling wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:22:52PM CEST:
> It seems that the m4 directory is required if I am to distribute a 
> package that makes use of libtools along with automake.  Is there a way 
> to include this directory during a 'make dist' without defining it in 
> EXTRA_DIST in my Makefile.am?  I would have thought that automake would 
> be able to include this directory and the necessary files such as 
> codeset.m4 on its own.

I'm not sure I understand what you are doing: you have a package foo
which has some own m4 macro files in foo/m4/*.m4, and you use `aclocal
-I m4' to have them used for your configure.  Is that correct?
If so, a recent Automake (>= 1.8 I believe) should include the m4 files
automatically in the distribution.  For compatibility with older
Automaken, you might want to put them in EXTRA_DIST anyway.

Regards,
Ralf