At Saturday 20 February 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> to round this up:
>
> Wildcards in EXTRA_DIST are pretty much a must-not-break because
> too many packages depend on it. Of course the caveats mentioned
> in the FAQ apply.
>
> extra[567].test and distdir.test check semantics of putting a
> directory in EXTRA_DIST, subpkg3.test ensures files and
> directories may thus be shared by package and subpackage.
>
> I guess a test using an explicit wild card would be good as well,
> as I'm not entirely sure all make implementations handle wildcards
> in prerequisites correctly; the `distdir' target has
> `$(EXTRA_DIST)' as prerequisite.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
Hello Ralf.
If it's ok for you, I'm soon going to submit a (tentative) patch on
the automake-patches list, which will add tests about the use
wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
Regards,
Stefano
