Re: git-version-gen and EXTRA_DIST

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Simon,

> I got a report [1] that it wasn't possible to run 'autoreconf' in a
> distribution tarball because build-aux/git-version-gen was not
> distributed.

Can you show such a tarball? In coreutils-8.12.tar.gz, build-aux/git-version-gen
is distributed.

> > +You must add EXTRA_DIST += build-aux/git-version-gen to Makefile.am.
> 
> Even better would be to put the EXTRA_DIST line under the configure.ac
> portion of the module file.

This EXTRA_DIST augmentation is synthesized automatically by gnulib-tool.
Every file listed in the 'Files:' section of the module description is
distributed. Automatically.

Bruno
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