Re: extra files for distribution

[Gavin Smith]

On 23 September 2015 at 00:14, Andy Falanga (afalanga)
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> I previously wrote out a reply and then deleted it when I read your
>> email again. But maybe it was what you wanted. I was going to suggest
>> using a variable based on the DATA "primary", in Automake's
>> terminology. E.g. dist_foo_DATA = file.doc to install foo.doc in
>> ${foodir}.
>
> This does look promising but from this link,
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Uniform.html, it
> would seem that I've got to name a directory off of
> $(datadir)/[something] in order to make this work.  Unless I can force
> this datadir to be the same as $(libdir) then this will not work.  These
> xml files are parsed (I'm not sure how) by the python runtime.

It would naturally be dist_lib_DATA but if that doesn't work there is
a workaround in the Automake manual somewhere.