Re: automake help request ...

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Hi,

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> 	So - anyone got an easy way of excluding files from a release that
> are part of the source needed to be built [ NB. adding features to
> automake is the obvious solution, but this is IIRC impossible ].

Here's a "hacky" solution.

Any files listed in BUILT_SOURCES will not be in the distribution
tarball if the 'make dist' is run in a non-srcdir build.

- Hari
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