Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:09:37AM CEST: > > The reason why it is done at automake run time is that automake needs > to generate a Makefile which includes the file in the distribution if > it happens to exist. Makefiles are never updated by 'make dist'.
Good point. Thanks! Cheers, Ralf