Re: Packaging a directory tree with scripts.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> I would like to include the src/tools directory in the distribution, but
> all of the tools are perl scripts. It seems wasteful to be making
> Makefile.am's and Makefile.in's which are ten times larger than the
> tools within each of the directories.
>
> I am aware of the possibility of adding "tools/" to EXTRA_DIST in
> src/Makefile.am, but maybe there is a cleaner solution that I'm missing?
>
> I was thinking something along the lines of a hand-writted, very simple
> Makefile that doesn't have any of the compiling cruft not needed. These
> scripts are only to be in the source tarball, they don't get installed.

I use this in the top-level Makefile.am:

# Non-Automake subdirectories to distribute
DISTDIRS = dir1 dir2 dir3
dist-hook:
        ( \
          builddir=`pwd` ; \
          cd $(srcdir) && \
          ( \
            for dir in $(DISTDIRS) ; do \
              find $$dir -depth -print | egrep -v 
'(~$$)|(/CVS)|(/\.#)|(/\.deps)' \
                | cpio -pdum $$builddir/$(distdir) 2> /dev/null ; \
            done \
          ) \
        )

YMMV.

Bob
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