Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes: > Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory > stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere > with automake's stamps and rules: > > subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp > commands ... > subdir/my-dirstamp: > @$(MKDIR_P) subdir > @: > $@ > DISTCLEANFILES += subdir/my-dirstamp
A possibly simpler way, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, is to do this at configure time: AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([tests/data/.placeholder], [touch tests/data/.placeholder]) -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>