Re: make maintainer-check

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Lorenzo,

* Lorenzo Bettini wrote on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:38:43PM CEST:
> does automake already provide mechanisms for a 'make maintainer-check'?

No.

> Of course I can implement this manually and possibly with some if in
> a Makefile.am, but I was wondering whether there's already some
> built-in functionality (I didn't find anything in the manual).

There are helpful snippets you can look at in the Automake source tree
itself, and gnulib modules you may find helpful, too.  The latter are
typically GNU make-specific, but that is usually acceptable for
maintainer-check.

Cheers,
Ralf