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Re: extra files for distribution
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Re: extra files for distribution |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:38:28 +0100 |
On 22 September 2015 at 18:12, Andy Falanga (afalanga)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My project has some doc files which are currently generated by the
> parsing engine of Visual Studio. Our plan is to simply generate them,
> periodically, and include them with our Linux build via autotools. I'm
> not sure of how to include them though. EXTRA_DIST isn't the answer
> because they are things which are *not* to be installed. These files
> aren't necessary for the build which means I don't need them in the
> directives/primaries. What is the Makefile.am magic I'm looking for
> which will include these extras in the installation but not include them
> in the build?
I don't understand what you mean: you say they are things that "are
*not* to be installed", but then you say you want to include them "in
the installation".
As far as I can tell EXTRA_DIST doesn't cause installation anywhere.