Re: [Chicken-users] ${DISTFILES}

[felix winkelmann]

On 3/28/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Where is ${DISTFILES} defined?  It's not defined in Makefile.am.  Is it
> some implicit Autoconf / Automake thing?  Google isn't much use here.
>
> I am trying to figure out how to completely CMake-ify the bootstrap.  I
> don't want to spend my scant free time chasing down every single detail
> about where obfuscated variables come from or what silly Autoconf is
> doing, so a quick pointer on what it's for would be welcome.

I guess that's an automake variable, see Makeifle.in:

DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST)

I'm not sure. I'm not an autotools guru, and neither I'm going to put
any more effort into learning it.

<grumbles a bit more and continues hacking on his own build system...>


cheers,
felix