Re: Distributing and installing prebuilt HTML documentation

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Steve,

* Steve Goetze wrote on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:18:16PM CET:
> I have prebuilt HTML documentation (i.e. not from Texinfo sources) that I'd
> like to have installed with make install, or possibly make install-html at
> @address@hidden
> 
> The sources are in docbook format; the resulting files include .html along
> with several subdirectories (css, images, etc).
> 
> Is there a way to cleanly make this happen with Automake?

Nobody implemented doc_DOCBOOKS yet, unfortunately.  ;-)

Have an install-html rule to install all that you need (be sure to
install to $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)).  Let install-data-local depend upon
install-html.

For dist, the dist hook example shows how to deal with directories:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Dist.html>

Cheers,
Ralf