Re: specifying workbook dir for dist-hook

[Marius Vollmer]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> this convention is now provisionally (not set in stone) codified in
> guile-core/am/maintainer-dirs and workbook/build/maintainer-dirs.text.

I have trouble using this setup with automake 1.4-p4.  For whatever
reason, automake does not allow the inclusion of files containing a
'-' character, and you can't be inside a conditional when including a
file.

What I am seeing is that automake does not interpret the line

    include $(top_srcdir)/am/maintainer-dirs

in guile-core/Makefile.am, and copies it into (effectively) Makefile.
In turn GNU make will interpret the include directive, but does not
understand the "if" in am/maintainer-dirs:

    $ make
    am/maintainer-dirs:32: *** missing separator.  Stop.


I'm about to report this to the automake guys, but wanted to check
first what other people are saying/doing about this.