Re: Coverage check for data files inclusion in dist

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Christian,

* Christian Egli wrote on Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:15:22PM CEST:
> I work in a project where we ship a lot of data files. These files sit
> in a subdirectory where Makefile.am lists them explicitly as follows:
[...]

> But as a compromise would it maybe be possible to have some form of
> coverage check that takes the table_files variable and checks if there
> are files in the directory that are not listed (aside from the obvious
> Makefile.am and Makefile)? Anyone have some code snippets to share? I
> checked gnulib but it doesn't seem to contain anything like that.

Well, how can your project tell whether they are complete or not?
That's the test I would cause "make check" to run.

Cheers,
Ralf