Re: avoiding target $(srcdir)/Makefile.in

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "john" == john heasley <address@hidden> writes:

john> is there a macro or option to automake to ommit the target
john> for $(srcdir)/Makefile.in, such that it is not necessary to
john> include Makefile.am and configure.in in a distribution?

FYI, we don't support not distributing these files.  It probably won't
break, but I think it is important that we encourage everybody to
distribute these files.

In the past I've had bad experiences with packages that don't
distribute configure.in.  I'm strongly against that practice.

Tom