I have been reading up on the release process at various sources, including http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseProcedure.
The following command ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-build-type=pre && make lyxdist gives me an error: make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'test/test-insets-basic.lyx', needed by 'distdir'. Stop. Does the command work for others? Scott