Re: make dist-all produces an empty tarball

[lsiden]

I fixed the problem.

At some point, probably while installing one of the automake distros, a
symbolic  link was created, /usr/share/automake -->
/usr/share/automake-1.4.  "automake -a" created an empty "missing" file
in the current dir.  Changing the link to point to
/usr/share/automake-1.7 fixed this.  Now automake -a creates a real
"missing" file that contains commands, and "make dist-<whatever>" works.

Just had to look at the make output w/ a fine comb.  ;)

Thanks to Tim and to Alexandre for their generous help.

-larry