Hello, and adding bug-automake, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:06:32PM CEST: > On 13 Oct 2010, at 03:55, Bruno Haible wrote: > > And what's the role or effect of EXTRA_HEADERS? Automake does not do > > anything with .h files that it doesn't do with .png files. gnulib-tool > > already synthesizes EXTRA_DIST augmentations for files that are to be > > distributed. > > Automake complains if you add a computed (possibly empty) header name > to xxx_include_HEADERS, without a matching EXTRA_HEADERS containing the > static name. I added it purely to silence automake, but would be happy > to remove it if that can be done without unnecessary automake invocation > noise.
This looks like an Automake bug. EXTRA_HEADERS should not be needed, exactly because automake doesn't do anything special with headers, as Bruno noted. Thanks for the report. Here's a reproducer: cat >configure.ac <<\EOF AC_INIT([a], [1]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_SUBST([foo], [bar.h]) AC_OUTPUT EOF cat >Makefile.am <<\EOF nobase_include_HEADERS = $(foo) EOF autoreconf -vi Cheers, Ralf
