Re: git-version-gen and EXTRA_DIST

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
>> 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.
>
> Can you show such a tarball? In coreutils-8.12.tar.gz, 
> build-aux/git-version-gen
> is distributed.

See 

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit-1.6.3.tar.gz

Coreutils is using bootstrap which may explain it, but otherwise I don't
see what is including git-version-gen in coreutils' tarball.

>> > +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.
>
> This EXTRA_DIST augmentation is synthesized automatically by gnulib-tool.
> Every file listed in the 'Files:' section of the module description is
> distributed. Automatically.

But that is only for lib/, isn't it?

/Simon