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I'm trying to write a simple Autotool package that just packages a single script. This might seem like overkill, but the script is to be added into the build-system for an embedded system and the build-system is designed to play nicely with Autotools.

I have a shell-script called wifi_query.sh. To package this I've followed the following steps:

  1. Created Makefile.am which contains the following -

    bin_SCRIPTS = wifi_query.sh
    CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS)
    
  2. I also created wifi_query.sh.in which contains the line exec wifi_query.sh. I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the .in file.
  3. I then run autoscan.
  4. Then I run:

    sed -e 's/FULL-PACKAGE-NAME/wifi_query/' \
    -e 's/VERSION/1/' \
    -e 's|BUG-REPORT-ADDRESS|/dev/null|' \
    -e '10i\
    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' \
    < configure.scan > configure.ac
    
  5. Run touch NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog.

  6. Run autoreconf -iv

  7. ./configure

  8. make distcheck

When I run make distcheck I get an error saying: "* No rule to make target 'wifi_query.sh', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.".

I don't understand this error, if anyone could give me any pointers that would be good. My suspicion is that the error may be due to wifi_query.sh.in, but I have very limited autotools experience.

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It seems I needed to replace the line bin_SCRIPTS = wifi_query.sh with dist_bin_SCRIPTS = wifi_query.sh in Makefile.am. Having done that everything seems to work.

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