15.2 Fine-grained distribution control

Sometimes you need tighter control over what does not go into the distribution; for instance you might have source files which are generated and which you do not want to distribute. In this case Automake gives fine-grained control using the `dist' and `nodist' prefixes. Any primary or `_SOURCES' variable can be prefixed with `dist_' to add the listed files to the distribution. Similarly, `nodist_' can be used to omit the files from the distribution.

As an example, here is how you would cause some data to be distributed while leaving some source code out of the distribution:

dist_data_DATA = distribute-this bin_PROGRAMS = foo nodist_foo_SOURCES = do-not-distribute.c