'make clean' is removing too many files

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi folks,

If I add something like

lib_LIBRARIES = /some/static/old/lib2install.a

to my Makefile.am, then the generated Makefile includes
/some/static/old/lib2install.a in the list of files to
remove for the clean target.

This is certainly not correct. Only targets that are
built by this Makefile should be removed during
'make clean'. See the documentation paragraph 12,
"What Gets Cleaned".

Is there a workaround for this problem? Maybe some
external_lib_LIBRARIES variable?


Regards

Harri