Re: 'make clean' removing doc/shishi.ps

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:34:08AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Is there some other way to achieve what I want (i.e., ship manuals
> in
> many formats and have them stick around after 'make clean') that
> I've
> missed?

looking at the source (automake.in) or installed automake script, one
can see that it's hardwired: procedure output_texinfo_build_rules
returns the *.ps and others, and the caller adds them to texi_cleans.

You can always patch automake and submit the change, but if your
needs are special, there is little chance that your change gets
accepted.

Or you can resort to a hack:
configure would make a bacup copy at configure time, and that copy
would be used by mostlyclean-local to restore the just-deleted files.

Or you can put the ``official'' docs separatey, not in the place
where they are usually built, and tell users about it.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal