* Brad Larsen wrote on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:11:11PM CET:
>
> I guess I wasn't clear enough. In section 4.7.2 of the autoconf manual,
> it says:
[...]
> That's why I'm having the makefile (which autoconf generates) do the
> substitution rather than calling AC_OUTPUT_FILES([runme]) or
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([runme]). (I tried the latter strategies without
> success---the substitutions would end up with '${prefix}' or
> '${exec_prefix}' in them, which would probably be undefined when runme is
> actually executed. And since I am using a makefile to generate the
> derived script 'runme', 'make distclean' doesn't remove it unless I add it
> to DISTCLEANFILES---otherwise 'make distcheck' fails.
OK. Then leave in the DISTCLEANFILES, and mention runme.in only in
EXTRA_DIST, or only in noinst_DATA if you like (dunno if the latter
works).
Cheers,
Ralf
