Tom> I think what we want is for the positioning of the .c file not to
Tom> matter for the developer, but for the file to end up in the
Tom> distribution made by `make dist'.
adl> The following is how I intended to fix this. I'm not sure
adl> it's what you want. Anyway the patch below won't apply since
adl> it predates Akim's sourcequake; I have yet to figure where the
adl> relevent passage has been moved :)
It is in distdir.am.
adl> * automake.in (handle_dist_worker): When building the distdir,
adl> copy files from the build directory in preference to the source
adl> directory; that way the distribution is always built from the
adl> latest version of generated files.
I'm leery of changing orderings like this.
I don't understand how the file can end up in both the source and
build trees. That is the mystery. I want to understand it before
implementing a change.
Tom
