Index: Makefile.am
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RCS file: /sources/confuse/confuse/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -B -r1.19 Makefile.am
--- Makefile.am	13 Oct 2007 20:44:39 -0000	1.19
+++ Makefile.am	1 Mar 2009 04:29:10 -0000
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
 CLEANFILES=*~ '\#*\#'
 EXTRA_DIST=libconfuse.spec.in libconfuse.spec
-SUBDIRS = m4 po src examples tests doc
+
+if ENABLE_EXAMPLES
+  EXAMPLES = examples
+endif
+SUBDIRS = m4 po src $(EXAMPLES) tests doc
 
 pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
 pkgconfig_DATA = libconfuse.pc
Index: configure.ac
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RCS file: /sources/confuse/confuse/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -b -B -r1.20 configure.ac
--- configure.ac	4 Oct 2008 13:50:05 -0000	1.20
+++ configure.ac	1 Mar 2009 04:29:10 -0000
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 AC_DISABLE_SHARED
 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
+#optional building of examples:
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(examples, 
+	AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-examples], [don't build examples in examples]),
+	[], [enable_examples=yes])
+
+AM_CONDITIONAL([ENABLE_EXAMPLES], [test "$enable_examples" = yes])
 AM_CONDITIONAL([cc_is_gcc], test "$GCC" = "yes")
 
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])