Re: "make dist" calls "automake" ??

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Guido Draheim <address@hidden> writes:

  >> This is an artifact of the 1.4 automatic dependency tracking
  >> implementation.  We re-run automake at dist time so that we can write
  >> the dependencies into the generated Makefile.in.

  gd> Well, Tom, isn't it that most make-dependencies are dependent on
  gd> the chosen `configure` options?

Not usually.  The list of dependencies that is included in Makefile.in
omits all the system headers so you typically only get local include
files (ones that come with the package).

It's possible to get unwanted ones on there, but packagers just need to
be careful about this... it's only an issue when you're creating a
distribution (with "make dist" or one of its siblings).

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