Re: distcheck and uninstall

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Robert Collins wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 08:30:03AM CEST:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 08:24 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Robert Collins wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:16:25AM CEST:
> > > It would be nice if there was an option to tell automake not to (do
> > > 'uninstall' as part of distcheck | require that uninstall leaves no
> > > files behind)
> > 
> > You can do the latter by overriding either distuninstallcheck rule of
> > the distuninstallcheck_listfiles command, see the lower half of
> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Checking-the-Distribution.html>.
> 
> Sweet, thanks. Do you recall when that target was added? [So I can make
> sure that that version of automake is my required minimum..]

No, I don't, but automake/NEWS indicates that it should've been around
1.7, and 'git show Release-1-7:lib/am/distdir.am' looks good, too.

Cheers,
Ralf