Re: automake help request ...
- From: James Henstridge <james daa com au>
- To: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
- Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: automake help request ...
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:20:01 +0800 (WST)
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Michael Meeks wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I struggled to get automake to do what I want for a while, and
> then I thought I'd ask you people.
>
> Essentialy I have the following problem:
>
> orbit-idl is used to generate C files that I want to include as
> the _SOURCES of a certain library. However, I _really_ don't want to be
> shipping these files, they do not belong in the package, since the IDL
> compiler is at total liberty to change itself randomly.
>
> So, I really want something like:
>
> NO_DIST = Bonobo-stubs.c ...
>
> However, having read automake, fiddled with adding rules to
> EXTRA_DIST, touching files, dummy targets, trying to hook into make
> distdir etc. etc. I can't see how to do this...
>
> So - anyone got an easy way of excluding files from a release that
> are part of the source needed to be built [ NB. adding features to
> automake is the obvious solution, but this is IIRC impossible ].
>
> I can think of several brutal hack methods, but none that are
> nice.
In my python bindings for gtk 2.0, I have a similar situation. I ended up
adding a dist-hook target. Something like this:
dist-hook:
-rm -f $(distdir)/some-file-i-dont-want-included
Provided the rules to rebuild the file are included in the makefile, this
works fine.
James.
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