Re: Infinite loop on make dist

[Eric Blake]

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According to Stepan Kasal on 6/19/2008 6:12 AM:
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| That why I came to the opinion that a plain autotools-generated
| tarball would be better than tarball containing the confusing hooks.

Well, that's exactly why GNUmakefile has had two recent patches - one to
skip running autoreconf if git-version-gen fails, and the other to look at
the correct .tarball-version file.  Unless you intentionally change
.tarball-version, GNUmakefile will now no longer insist on an autoreconf
when run from a tarball, so we have effectively killed the maintainer's
VCS-specific hooks that made 2.62 so hard to redistribute.  I still intend
on shipping the complete GNUmakefile as part of 2.63, now that it plays
much more nicely with non-VCS builds and is more mature.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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