Re: using $(wildcard) in EXTRA_DIST

[Peter Johansson]

On 09/19/2012 04:23 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> Hey
>
> our documentation provides some images files in a subdirectory  'img'.
> So, in EXTRA_DIST, we have added:
>
> $(wildcard $(srcdir)/img/*.*)
>
> automake reports that warning:
>
> doc/Makefile.am:35: wildcard $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
> doc/Makefile.am:35: (probably a GNU make extension)
>
> what is the correct way to add all the files, without listing them all
> in EXTA_DIST ?
I would add $(srcdir)/img in EXTRA_DIST and then remove unwanted files 
with a dist-hook rule. But it sounds a bit fragile to me.

Cheers,
Peter