Disable make distcheck --help and --version checks

[Brendon Costa]

The subject says it all. I have a "special" example project that i would 
like to ensure when i use the distcheck target it does NOT check that 
some or all of the installed applications provide --help or --version. 
How can i do this?

Some people are likely to want to argue that it is important for all 
installed apps to provide this and i would agree in other circumstances. 
However due to the way this example project is used i cant afford to 
make the applications noinst and most importantly i also can not 
permanently modify the source to respond to --help or --version. Is 
there something i can set in the Makefile.am to disable this particular 
check?

I can go into details as to why i cant do noinst or permanently 
implement --help or --version if what i request is not possible and i 
need to find another method of achieving this behavior.

Thanks.
Brendon.