Re: "missing" is not executable

[Akim Demaille]

| Hello!
| The file "missing" on CVS is not executable. "make dist" doesn't make it
| executable. People who don't have e.g. makeinfo will be out of luck.
| 
| Possible solutions:
| 
| 1) Ask address@hidden to make it executable (IMO should be done
| anyways, "mdate-sh" too).
| 
| 2) Add a hook to the "dist" target to make "missing" executable.
| 
| 3) Modify m4/missing.m4 (not that deep as the current Automake does), e.g.
| 
| --- missing.m4  Thu Oct 12 17:17:50 2000
| +++ missing.m4  Thu Oct 12 17:29:35 2000
| @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
|     $1=$2
|     AC_MSG_RESULT(found)
|  else
| -   $1="$3/missing $2"
| +   $1="$SHELL $3/missing $2"
|     AC_MSG_RESULT(missing)
|  fi
|  AC_SUBST($1)])

I favor 1 + 3.