A real-life example, from the gtk-doc package.
bin_SCRIPTS = \ gtkdoc-scanobj \ gtkdoc-scangobj \ ... gtkdocdatadir = $(datadir)/gtk-doc gtkdocdata_DATA = \ gtkdoc-common.pl \ gtk-doc.xsl \ devhelp.xsl \ ... pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig pkgconfig_DATA = gtk-doc.pc EXTRA_DIST= \ MAINTAINERS \ gtk-doc.pc.in \ ... dist-hook: mkdir $(distdir)/doc cp -pr $(srcdir)/doc/* $(distdir)/doc rm -rf $(distdir)/doc/CVS mkdir $(distdir)/db2man cp -pr $(srcdir)/db2man/* $(distdir)/db2man ... |