Bruno Haible <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Simon, > >> I got a report [1] that it wasn't possible to run 'autoreconf' in a >> distribution tarball because build-aux/git-version-gen was not >> distributed. > > Can you show such a tarball? In coreutils-8.12.tar.gz, > build-aux/git-version-gen > is distributed.
See http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit-1.6.3.tar.gz Coreutils is using bootstrap which may explain it, but otherwise I don't see what is including git-version-gen in coreutils' tarball. >> > +You must add EXTRA_DIST += build-aux/git-version-gen to Makefile.am. >> >> Even better would be to put the EXTRA_DIST line under the configure.ac >> portion of the module file. > > This EXTRA_DIST augmentation is synthesized automatically by gnulib-tool. > Every file listed in the 'Files:' section of the module description is > distributed. Automatically. But that is only for lib/, isn't it? /Simon
