Re: simple distcheck fails

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:58PM CET:
> 
> Sigh, I so really prefer doing a
>   git-archive HEAD | tar -C /tmp/whereever -xf- &&
>   run autogen.sh in whereever &&
>   pack up the stuff
> over distcheck atm :-P

The above is an approximation of 'make dist', not of distcheck.
I think you've misunderstood the intention of distcheck, explaned here:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Preparing-Distributions.html>,
and in links pointed to from there.

And BTW, if you don't need the distribution-related rules from Automake,
then you can use the 'no-dist' option so they aren't output.

Cheers,
Ralf