Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > On 04/30/2011 09:53 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> 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. Is this intended to work automatically somehow? >> Otherwise, how about this patch? >> >> /Simon >> >> [1] >> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/oath-toolkit-help/2011-04/msg00039.html >> >> diff --git a/modules/git-version-gen b/modules/git-version-gen >> index a783ac5..e42dff0 100644 >> --- a/modules/git-version-gen >> +++ b/modules/git-version-gen >> @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ >> Description: >> Compute a version string from a git repository. >> >> +Notice: >> +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.
Why configure.ac? The line needs to go into Makefile.am. Could you point to some other module that does that, for comparison? > There are probably other modules, like gnupload, that could also > benefit from that sort of treatment. Yes, and update-copyright. /Simon
