distclean-recursive broken?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Hi,

I think distclean-recursive is broken:

automake-1.8.2 currently generates this rule for distclean-recursive:
...
mostlyclean-recursive clean-recursive distclean-recursive \
maintainer-clean-recursive:
        @set fnord $$MAKEFLAGS; amf=$$2; \
        dot_seen=no; \
        case "$@" in \
          distclean-* | maintainer-clean-*) list='$(DIST_SUBDIRS)' ;; \
          *) list='$(SUBDIRS)' ;; \
        esac; \
        rev=''; for subdir in $$list; do \
          if test "$$subdir" = "."; then :; else \
            rev="$$subdir $$rev"; \
...

I.e. "make distclean" recurses into DIST_SUBDIRS.

This breaks "make distcheck" for Makefile.ams where
SUBDIRS != DIST_SUBDIRS,
because "make distcheck" first recurses into SUBDIRS and afterwards runs
"make distclean" in DIST_SUBDIRS.

IMO, distclean-recursive should always recurse into SUBDIRS.


Background: I my toplevel Makefile.am, I am setting up SUBDIRS by
autoconf substitutions, separately set up DIST_DISTS statically to
handle a subset of subdirectories and let dist-hook handle those
directories which can not be put into DIST_SUBDIRS.

I.e. the Makefile.am looks similar to this:

SUBDIRS = sub1 @moresubdirs@
DIST_SUBDIRS = sub1

dist-hook:
        cp -pR $(srcdir)/sub2 $(distdir)/sub2
        cp -pR $(srcdir)/sub3 $(distdir)/sub3 
 
Ralf