* David Bruce wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 04:16:34PM CET: > > DISTCLEANFILES = _configs.sed esio/esio-config.h > > Thanks - I had come up with another workaround, which was to manually > add the offending files to be removed in distclean-hdr: > > # If using AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H, distclean leaves some files so get rid > of them (HACK) > distclean-hdr: > -rm -f config.h stamp-h1 _configs.sed t4k_common-config.h If you need a Makefile.am snippet that does what you want but doesn't override part of automake's output (yeah, it's not great style to have an internal helper rule named so non-internally), then please use distclean-local: distclean-ax-prefix-config-h distclean-ax-prefix-config-h: rm -f _configs.sed t4k_common-config.h Using the -local targets is the recommended way to extend targets, and using a helper target avoids duplicate rule definitions if someone else wants to extend the -local target as well. The AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H macro could distribute a fragment.am file with a rule such as above (and the header file name suitably replaced by a variable which could be AC_SUBSTed). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf