On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 09:35 -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: > Gaetan Nadon wrote: > > > > If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, > > rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires > > itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, nothing should > > be added to the tarball that isn't required for installation. > > > > > From where did you get that rule? It doesn't go very well with the fact > that automake by default adds Makefile.am, configure.ac and other .m4 > files to the tarball. Those files will never be useful for a pure > ./configure; make; make install, but as soon as you wanna fix a bug or > just modify the package you'll be happy those files are around. >
I messed up my point, sorry. Based on my experience, there is nothing missing, but I cannot prove it. > Peter
