Re: Packaging a directory tree with scripts.

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> I have an autotooled project that has a structure like so:
> 
> top
>   src
>     engine
>     front-end
>     tools
>       tool1
>       tool2
>       (...)
> 
> I would like to include the src/tools directory in the distribution, but
> all of the tools are perl scripts. It seems wasteful to be making
> Makefile.am's and Makefile.in's which are ten times larger than the
> tools within each of the directories.
> 
> I am aware of the possibility of adding "tools/" to EXTRA_DIST in
> src/Makefile.am, but maybe there is a cleaner solution that I'm missing?

Perhaps you could add
  tools/tool1/script_one.pl
  tools/tool2/the_second_tool.pl
  ...
to EXTRA_DIST.  Would you consider this a cleaner solution?

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal