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14.4.11 ‘Makefile.in’ at top level
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   Here are a few modifications you need to make to your main, top-level
‘Makefile.in’ file.

  1. Add the following lines near the beginning of your ‘Makefile.in’,
     so the ‘dist:’ goal will work properly (as explained further down):

          PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
          VERSION = @VERSION@

  2. Wherever you process subdirectories in your ‘Makefile.in’, be sure
     you also process the subdirectory ‘po’.  Special rules in the
     ‘Makefiles’ take care for the case where no internationalization is
     wanted.

     If you are using Makefiles, either generated by automake, or
     hand-written so they carefully follow the GNU coding standards, the
     effected goals for which the new subdirectories must be handled
     include ‘installdirs’, ‘install’, ‘uninstall’, ‘clean’,
     ‘distclean’.

     Here is an example of a canonical order of processing.  In this
     example, we also define ‘SUBDIRS’ in ‘Makefile.in’ for it to be
     further used in the ‘dist:’ goal.

          SUBDIRS = doc lib src po

  3. A delicate point is the ‘dist:’ goal, as ‘po/Makefile’ will later
     assume that the proper directory has been set up from the main
     ‘Makefile’.  Here is an example at what the ‘dist:’ goal might look
     like:

          distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)
          dist: Makefile
          	rm -fr $(distdir)
          	mkdir $(distdir)
          	chmod 777 $(distdir)
          	for file in $(DISTFILES); do \
          	  ln $$file $(distdir) 2>/dev/null || cp -p $$file $(distdir); \
          	done
          	for subdir in $(SUBDIRS); do \
          	  mkdir $(distdir)/$$subdir || exit 1; \
          	  chmod 777 $(distdir)/$$subdir; \
          	  (cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $@) || exit 1; \
          	done
          	tar chozf $(distdir).tar.gz $(distdir)
          	rm -fr $(distdir)

   Note that if you are using GNU ‘automake’, ‘Makefile.in’ is
automatically generated from ‘Makefile.am’, and all needed changes to
‘Makefile.am’ are already made by running ‘gettextize’.