See the commit messages of the individual patches for rationales and background. I plan to push this series to master in 72 hours.
Stefano Lattarini (3): texinfo: info files can be generated in the builddir texinfo: remove hack about info files in CLEANFILES variables docs: document the new 'info-in-builddir' option NEWS | 26 +++++++ automake.in | 30 ++------ doc/automake.texi | 11 +++ lib/Automake/Options.pm | 1 + t/list-of-tests.mk | 5 +- t/mdate5.sh | 51 ++++++++------ t/{txinfo25.sh => txinfo-builddir.sh} | 126 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- t/txinfo23.sh | 66 ------------------ t/txinfo24.sh | 83 ---------------------- t/txinfo28.sh | 89 ------------------------ t/txinfo33.sh | 1 - 11 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-) rename t/{txinfo25.sh => txinfo-builddir.sh} (50%) delete mode 100755 t/txinfo23.sh delete mode 100755 t/txinfo24.sh delete mode 100755 t/txinfo28.sh -- 1.8.1.rc3.27.g3b73c7d