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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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What Goes into a Distribution?

Automake usually determines automatically what should go into a distribution created with make dist, because it's very aware of every file's role in the build process. To this end, Automake wants to be told about every source file used to build a product and about every file and product installed. This means, of course, that all files must be specified at some point in one or more PLV and PSV variables.[78]

The Automake EXTRA_DIST variable contains a space-delimited list of files and directories that should be added to the distribution package when the dist target is made. For example:

EXTRA_DIST = windows

You could use the EXTRA_DIST variable to add a source directory to the distribution package that Automake would ...

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