Hi,
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:08:22PM -0500, Simon Perreault wrote:
> SUBDIRS = ...
> DIST_SUBDIRS = $(SUBDIRS) examples
>
> .PHONY: examples clean-examples
>
> examples: all
> ( cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) )
>
> clean-examples:
> ( cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean )
>
> clean-local: clean-examples
your example wouldn't remove examples/Makefile.in on ``make distclean''.
(You can fix this similarily as you fix the clean-local target.)
You omit the subdir from SUBDIRS, and add rule for clean.
Another approach would be to put the subdir into SUBDIRS, but prevent
the target `all' from making the programs there:
========================================================================
SUBDIRS = ... examples
.PHONY: examples
examples: all
cd $(top_builddir)/examples && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) examples
========================================================================
The examples/Makefile.am could contain this:
========================================================================
EXTRA_PROGRAMS = one two
.PHONY: examples
examples: $(EXTRA_PROGRAMS)
========================================================================
With this approach ``cd examples; make'' does _not_ build the examples,
which might be counterintuitive.
HTH,
Stepan Kasal
