[Gnucash-changes] Makefile.am variables (was: Spruce up the ...)

Christian Stimming stimming at tuhh.de
Wed Jul 20 16:22:05 EDT 2005


Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2005 22:02 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> > Ahh, I thought EXTRA_DIST controlled what went into the tarball.
> > Removing any header files from this will cause 'make distcheck' to fail,
> > not that that would be anything new.
>
> Correct, all source files (including headers) must be in a _SOURCES,
> _HEADERS, or EXTRA_DIST.  You cannot remove them from all of those.  A
> header need not be installed, but it must be in the dist or building from
> the tarball will fail.

Actually I would suggest adding those not-to-be-installed-headers to the 
variable noinst_HEADERS. That should be the same effect, while at the same 
time makes it clear that these files are headers, which are always in dist... 
whatever...

Christian


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