Re: PACKAGE_TARNAME not used to build tar file.

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Lemings <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems that the 'dist' and 'distcheck' targets use either PACKAGE
> or PACKAGE_NAME rather than PACKAGE_TARNAME to build tar files.  This
> is not what is described in Section 4.1 of the Autoconf manual: "The
> package tarname differs from package: the latter designates the full
> package name (e.g., `GNU Autoconf'), while the former is meant for
> distribution tar ball names (e.g., `autoconf')."

Sounds like a problem, but can you please supply an example that
illustrates the problem?  I assume that it would involve a 4-argument
AC_INIT, but I'm not sure which version of Autoconf you're using,
whether Automake is involved, etc.  If you already have an example you
can just send it in; it doesn't have to be short.  Thanks.