Re: make dist in doc directory

[Bob Rossi]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:57:45PM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:06:34AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > I've always been under the assumption that 'make dist' would copy the
> > entire directory in. [...]
> 
> I don't think this assumption is true.
> 
> Add
>       dist_man_MANS = cgdb.1
>       EXTRA_DIST = cgdb.txt htdocs
> 
> to your Makefile.am.

Thanks! This worked wonderfully. Ralf, thanks also for your response.
It installed the cgdb.1 into target/man/man1 where --prefix=target. Is
this correct?

I went to look at the "GNU standards on this matter" found via link here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_mono/automake.html#Man%20pages
but the link is dead :(

Bob Rossi