Hi Jeffrey, * Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote on Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:27:35AM CEST: > > I intended to put some local macros into the m4/ directory. These > macros would be needed for the ./configure script to work, > therefore they need to be included into the dist tarball.
But your m4 directory is empty. So, you could have just left out all that. > If you do agree, then my point is that automake should be smart > enough to recognize that the m4/ directory be included in the dist > tarball. Automake would not include everything below m4/ even if there were macros in there which aclocal used, but only the actually used macro files. This is a feature: For example, m4/CVS/ should not be distributed. *snip* > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 > > Likewise, now automake has another reason to include the m4/ > directory in the dist tarball. No, see above. > I repeat, the problem is that without "EXTRA_DIST += m4", make > distcheck fails, because the m4/ directory has not been included > in the dist tarball. I agree that it is a bug that distcheck fails that way. I don't agree that Automake should include the empty directory. Just my two cents, though. Regards, Ralf
