On Jan 15, 2018, at 11:21 PM, katja <katjavetter@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know much about autotools, but I've always thought that you
can't define your own (additional) targets in a makefile.am.

You definitely can. You can define your own targets, as we have done with some of the Makefiles in Pd ala "make app":
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/mac/Makefile.am#L19

You can't really override the default targets but you can extend them with *-local and/or *-hook : https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Extending.html

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