Re: distcheck and AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Harlan,

* Harlan Stenn wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:55:08PM CET:
> 
> The top-level package uses a library in a subdir of the tear-off
> package.
> 
> "make distcheck" is failing, apparently because the Makefile in the
> tear-off subdir is getting "cleaned" twice, once in as part of the
> top-level Makefile SUBDIRS list and again as part of the SUBDIRS list in
> the tear-off Makefile.
> 
> I would prefer to keep a single copy of this tear-off subdir library;
> what can I do to have "make distcheck" work in this case?

Pardon my language ignorance: what do you mean by "tear-off package"?
Could you post the code that exemplifies this?

Cheers,
Ralf