Re: AM Conditional for SUBDIRS

[Monty Taylor]

Vikram Ambrose wrote:
> I have a problem trying to conditional include a subdir into a build
> configuration or not.
> 
> I have tried two things.
> 1)
> -------------------------------------------------
> SUBDIRS = pkgA pkgB
> 
> if BUILD_pkgC
>   SUBDIRS += pkgC
> endif
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 2)
> -------------------------------------------------
> SUBDIRS = pkgA pkgB $(extra_pkgs)
> 
> extra_pkgs =
> if BUILD_pkgC
>   extra_pkgs += pkgC
> endif
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Both of which work, for make; make install; make clean; but when i try
> to make dist or make distclean, they fail. I do a test in configure.ac
> to conditional set AC_CONFIG_FILES([pkgc/Makefile])
> 
> How do I do this properly?

You need to add the dir into DIST_SUBDIRS variable