Hi Bob, * Bob Rossi wrote on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:06:34PM CET: > > I've always been under the assumption that 'make dist' would copy the > entire directory in.
No. See info Automake Dist of a sufficiently recent Automake version (the documentation has improved compared to older versions). > Any ideas on what is preventing my man page from being put into the dist > hook? An even better question is, is there something special I'm > supposed to do with automake, to tell it I have a man page? For > instance, shouldn't it have a special rule to install the man page when > a 'make install' is done? See info Automake 'Man pages' and use man_MANS = cgdb.1 .. EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS) or similar. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
