Hello,
I was confused by the fact that things in DIST_SUBDIRS
are not meant to be built nor installed, but that still
some files are built, namely the files needing some
special tools to be built. I made a patch for the
documentation. Maybe this should also be more explicit
in the coding standards, such that this is done for
everything and not only automake generated rules and gettext
files.
If you really want a ChangeLog entry, (but you can omit
it if you like), it could be along
State that in DIST_SUBDIRS (in make dist) files that need
special tools to be generated (info manual, yacc generated
files) will be built.
--
Pat
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 1632dcd..814ba59 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -4182,7 +4182,12 @@ build. Recall our example where we may not want to build subdirectory
Precisely, @code{DIST_SUBDIRS} is used by @samp{make
maintainer-clean}, @samp{make distclean} and @samp{make dist}. All
-other recursive rules use @code{SUBDIRS}.
+other recursive rules use @code{SUBDIRS}. Files that may need some
+special tools to be generated, for example info manuals @ref{Texinfo}
+or Yacc and Lex generated files @ref{Yacc and Lex} will also be built
+as part of @samp{make dist}. Therefore, putting these files in
+...@code{dist_subdirs} directories is not enough to prevent them
+from being built.
If @code{SUBDIRS} is defined conditionally using Automake
conditionals, Automake will define @code{DIST_SUBDIRS} automatically
