Re: DISTCLEANFILES with SUBDIR directories

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Brendon,

* Brendon Costa wrote on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:54:50AM CET:
> 
> I have a project using automake and I want to ensure that the distclean
> target removes a directory that is listed conditionally in the SUBDIRS
> variable. Is this possible to do this without the distclean target being
> performed recursively inside the sub directory first?
> 
> My Makefile.am has:
> SUBDIRS = $(subdirs)
> 
> distclean-local:
>     rm -rf gcc-4.0.4

I suppose you can try adding
  DIST_SUBDIRS = . $(subdirs)

but probably you will have to make the latter $(subdirs_without_gcc)
and then take care that 'make dist' is handled correctly, by writing
a suitable dist-local rule or so (untested).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf