Re: dist_... files not deleted by distclean

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jirka" == Jirka Hanika <address@hidden> writes:

Jirka> Suppose my package requires a bunch of architecture independent
Jirka> data files (say, icons).  It seems natural for these files to
Jirka> get installed into pkgdatadir and to go to the distribution, so
Jirka> I write something like

Jirka> dist_pkgdata_DATA = $(srcdir)/*.png

Using `*.png' won't work.  Adding $(srcdir) to it makes it seem like
it will work, but really it won't.  If you just list all the .png
files there, then the right thing will happen.

Jirka> in the corresponding Makefile.am; this however causes "make
Jirka> distcheck" to fail ("files left after distclean"), because the
Jirka> files are copied to the distribution, but not deleted with
Jirka> distclean.

I don't fully understand this part.  How do the files end up in the
build directory at all?

Tom