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 14.2 Fine-grained Distribution Control
 ======================================
 
 Sometimes you need tighter control over what does _not_ go into the
 distribution; for instance, you might have source files that are
 generated and that 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
 

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