Re: vpath and make dist newbie problem

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Paul Davis <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It doesn't quite solve the problem in my real world situation;
>> "make dist" didn't copy #included files, and I needed to add something like
>> EXTRA_DIST = foobar
>> to pathprob/Makefile.am.
>
> This is to be expected, you have to tell autotools which files are
> part of the distribution. Source files are automatically included but
> header files are not.

Yeah, I see now how the real Makefile.am for the package
in question carefully lists a bunch of files in EXTRA_DIST,
and the hacked one I was handed to fix didn't.

Another fine educational day :-)

Thanks,
Dan