Hello Presario,
* Presario Smith wrote on Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:15:33AM CET:
>
> I'm writing to ask how to exclude the COPYING file from the
> distribution. When I type
> "make dist", the distribution will automatically contain that file.
> However, the license of my software is in the LICENSE file, and I
> don't want the GNU GPL in COPYING.
Don't have a COPYING file lying around in your source tree at
'make dist' time. Use the `foreign' Automake option to not
require it, either as
automake --foreign
or as option argument to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in configure.ac, or
assign it to the variable AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in the toplevel Makefile.am.
To list the set of files which automake distributes automatically if
found, type
automake --help
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ralf