Re: [bug-gnulib] gnulib and missing distribution files?

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Berry wrote:
> In trying to prepare the release of (gasp) GNU Hello, I'm finding that
> some gnulib files are being left out of the distribution tar.gz,
> specifically the getopt-related ones.  It looks like this is because the
> gnulib Makefile.am just has:
> 
> libgnu_a_SOURCES =
> libgnu_a_LIBADD = @LIBOBJS@
> noinst_HEADERS =
> pkgdata_DATA =
> EXTRA_DIST =
> 
> And the system getopt on the machine where I'm working already suffices,
> so it's not included in LIBOBJS.  But obviously (?) it should be
> included in the distribution.

Hmm. When I do a "make dist" in the current hello CVS, the getopt.m4
file is also not distributed. Which makes me think the problem is not
in gnulib/lib/Makefile.am but elsewhere... And in fact your
gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 does not list the 'getopt' module. Running
    $GNULIB_TOOL --import getopt
fixed it for me.

Bruno