Re: specifying workbook dir for dist-hook

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Generally speaking, you might be able to get around it with a level of
variable indirection.

  if FOO
    include ${BAR}
  endif

I've used a similar trick to get around some libtool limitations in
the past...

FWIW

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