Re: BUILT_SOURCES called on `make dist` even if the built sources should not be included in the dist

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Jerry Lundström wrote:
> I can't really see how this change got approved, isn't the point of
> BUILT_SOURCES to be sources built when building!?  Including them into
> distributions seems wrong.

I see considerable documentation regarding BUILT_SOURCES at 
"https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Sources.html";

It seems that there is a chicken and egg issue that BUILT_SOURCES is 
designed to solve.

"The BUILT_SOURCES variable is a workaround for this problem. A source 
file listed in BUILT_SOURCES is made on ‘make all’ or ‘make check’ (or 
even ‘make install’) before other targets are processed. However, such 
a source file is not compiled unless explicitly requested by 
mentioning it in some other _SOURCES variable."

Unfortunately, I think that it the BUILT_SOURCES requirement which 
makes my non-recursive build still a bit recursive.

Bob
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