How can I install a directory tree of HTML files, stylesheets and images with automake without having to create Makefiles in each subdirectory?
Using the following in the toplevel directory
htmldir = $(docdir)/foo/html
html_DATA = \
stylesheets/foo.css \
images/foo.jpg \
index.html \
about/index.html \
faq/index.html
EXTRA_DIST = $(html_DATA)
fails because the subdirectories are not created before install is called.
You could write
foohtmldir = $(htmldir)/foo/html
nobase_dist_foohtml_DATA = \
stylesheets/foo.css \
images/foo.jpg \
index.html \
about/index.html \
faq/index.html
htmldir is a variable the user is entitled to modify using configure --htmldir=... so I suggest using another one if you want to write to some subdirectory of it. The nobase_ prefix will tell Automake not to strip leading directories during installation, and the dist_ prefix requires the files to be distributed.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3636158/how-to-install-a-directory-tree-of-data-with-automake