Re: automake-1.4-p2 DOS platform bug

[Bruno Haible]

Tom Tromey writes:

> EXTRA_PROGRAMS shouldn't be in any dependency list.

This restriction is not mentioned in the manual. I want "make" to make
all such programs therefore I wrote

    all-local: $(EXTRA_PROGRAMS)

If automake doesn't allow this, it forces me to enumerate the programs
in two places.

> Instead it should list programs which are decided upon by configure.
> And configure should substitute using $(EXEEXT).

Then I'd like to ask for a different variable. I need to build
programs with the same CFLAGS, DEFS, LDFLAGS etc. as normal
bin_PROGRAMS, but these programs shall not be installed.

Bruno