Re: [PATCH] make make dist work without making first

[rsteinke w-link net]

From: Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>
>
> However, it appears that the reason you want to build $(libglib) is
> that you want to distribute the built sources.  It's not necessary to
> distribute those files which are generated using C code (i.e. using
> glib-genmarshal.*).  It is only necessary to distribute stuff built
> with Perl.  
>
> Wouldn't that be a better way to solve the problem rather than
> building $(libglib)?  Of course, this'll require the use of
> BUILT_SOURCES with a sane released 'automake' (say v1.5). 
>
>   BUILT_SOURCES = $(perl_built_files) $(c_built_files)
>   dist-hook-local: $(perl_built_sources)

Is this the canonical way of avoiding including the marshaller code in
a tarball? Something like

BUILT_SOURCES = foo_marshal.c foo_marshal.h

I'm not familiar with this automake option, so I'd appreciate it
if you could point me some where I could get some more discussion.
I don't remember seeing it in the online version of the book, but
I could be wrong.

Since this seems to be going off-topic for gtk-devel-list, I'm
setting it to go to gtk-list instead.

Ron Steinke