Re: Questions on 'make dist'

[NightStrike]

On 3/11/08, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote:
> >
> > I think I understand what you mean.  Create a recursive build tree
> > that allows starting from any point.  I would then perhaps put this
> > also in the trunk/Makefile.am:
> >
> > EXTRA_DIST=mingw-w64-headers mingw-w64-doc
> >
> > So that from the trunk directory, I could run 'make dist' and it would
> > grab everything, yes?
> >
> > I had intended to do everything with non-recursive make, but as you
> > pointed out once, non-recursive is also considered harmful.
>
> In what way is non-recursive considered harmful?
>
> This is what I use in my package to distribute directories that
> automake otherwise does not know about:
>
> # Non-Automake subdirectories to distribute
> DISTDIRS = images locale scenes scripts www PerlMagick TclMagick
> 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 \
>           ) \
>         )

The issue here is that the extra directory in this case would be
"../mingw-w64-headers"  -- ie, it's one level higher up in the tree.