Re: patch-3: adjust testsuite for redistribution checks

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:14:44PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:41:28PM CET:
> >>
> >>As an improvement, maybe we should test all possibilities in each
> >>relevant test:
> >>
> >>LT_AT_BOOTSTRAP([--copy --ltdl], [-I sub/ltdl/m4], [ignore],
> >>    [--add-missing --copy], [], [--enable-ltdl-install --prefix=$prefix],
> >>-   [all install])
> >>+   [all install dist distcheck])
> >
> >That's redundant, distcheck implies dist.
> 
> Assuming the libtool distribution was built in-tree, then I think
> the difference is that dist doesn't use VPATH, and distcheck does.
> I don't recall whether distcheck effectively tests both in that
> case, so you could still be right :-)

I'm still right, but for another reason.  You speak about the
  make dist
which is called at the very end of distcheck, to compare a VPATH-
generated tarball from the created source and build trees with the one
that was generated at the very beginning of distcheck.  It's this latter
(earlier in time ;-) one that is identical to what you create with `make
dist' anyway.

Cheers,
Ralf