Re: distclean doesn't remove nodist BUILT_SOURCES

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Akim,

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:33:42PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  > 2) Some of the files files belong to CLEANFILES, other to
>  > DISTCLEANFILES.  It's not easy to distinguish them (scanning
>  > configure.ac for AC_SUBST), and automake shouldn't try to do this
>  > guess.  Including them all to DISTCLEANFILES lowers the probability
>  > that the author will populate CLEANFILES accordingly.
> 
> Well, repetition should still be avoided.  It seems to me that you
> argument votes in favor of something clearer that nodist_, say
> 
>       clean_FOO_SOURCES
>       distclean_FOO_SOURCES
> 
> or whatever.

I'm not sure.  Instead of having yet another special variable, one can
do it this way:

nodist_foo_SOURCES = foo_x.c foo_y.c
CLEANFILES = $(nodist_foo_SOURCES) other_files

or, in more complicated cases

foo_src_clean = this.c
foo_src_distclean = this_one.c that_one.c
nodist_foo_SOURCES = $(foo_src_clean) $(foo_src_distclean)
CLEANFILES = $(foo_src_clean)
DISTCLEANFILES = $(foo_src_distclean)

I don't think it's less comprehensive this way.

Yours,
        Stepan